Ordeals Quotes - Page 3

• [The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Pregnancy, Passion, Names

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• If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Firsts, Conflict

  Norman Cousins (1961). “In place of folly”

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• Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. They have kept their first estate far enough to preserve themselves in the Priesthood. They did not so violate the law of the Priesthood and condemn themselves to the sin against the Holy Ghost as to be finally lost. They are not crowned with the celestial ones. They are persons who have lived upon an earth, but did not magnify the Priesthood in that high degree that many others have done who have become Gods, even the sons of God.

  Brigham Young

  Angel, Son, Law

  "Journal of Discourses 9:102", January 5, 1860.

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• I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.

  Yann Martel

  Brother, Children, Moving

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• Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Husband, Understanding, Dollars

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• The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Drama, Race, Evolution

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• The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist - and she hates making that phone call!

  Taylor Swift

  Hate, Phones, Gossip

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• Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

  Jim Carrey

  Obscurity, Poverty, Life Is

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• For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.

  Geraldine Brooks

  People, Four, Months

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• My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan

  Stephenie Meyer

  Night, Swans, Sound

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Years, Squad

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• We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Sorrow, Wicked, Done

  Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.173, Penguin

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• New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest?

  B. C. Forbes

  Dream, New Year, Deserve More

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• Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flowers. The whole world, so to speak, pours its wisdom into his mind. He regards it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one's self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others. In Edison's mind knowledge is power.

  B. C. Forbes

  Flower, Science, Self

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• I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied,
  and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women.
  Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections
  about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the
  ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and
  deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great
  literature and with an inspired teacher.

  Susan Sontag

  Teacher, War, Reflection

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• some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips people away from their roots, their important relationships, and a part of themselves. There is really nothing like it - except perhaps war.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Rip, War, Divorce

  Suzanne Gordon (1976). “Lonely in America”

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• There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.

  George S. Patton

  Prayer, Military, Army

  "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill. Review of the News, www.pattonhq.com. October 06, 1971.

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• The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

  Germaine Greer

  Abortion, Privilege, Insult

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• But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.

  Naoki Higashida

  Stress, Grief, Ideas

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• It would be difficult to tell," Wulf said. "I've always been a romantic. I've seen Casablanca twice, and I sat through the entire ordeal of Titanic". "Didn't you enjoy Titanic?" "I was relieved when the ship went down".

  Janet Evanovich

  Would Be, Ships, Said

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.455, Bantam

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• NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation, I mean. The serial killer was right in front of her, wide open! Clearly, instead of weeping like a moron, she could be lunging forward and administering a swift uppercut to the chin. Then this entire pointless ordeal would be over with, and I could go home.

  James Patterson

  Home, Mean, Eye

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• My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Mother, Hurt, Healing

  FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from May 09, 2015

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• Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

  Emily Giffin

  Hate, Heart, Mad

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Baby Proof: A Novel”, p.52, Macmillan

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• I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

  Paula Abdul

  Jobs, Grateful, Looking Forward

  "Probe Clears Paula Abdul Of 'Idol' Affair Charge". www.washingtonpost.com. August 13, 2005.

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