Divine Misfortune Quotes

#1. In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.

Steven Pinker

#2. Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"

Sri Aurobindo

#3. One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

Bruno Schulz

#4. I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

Diana Nyad

#5. Sometimes we don't know how heavily we bleed until our skin is peeled back.

Lila Felix

#6. I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

Brian Setzer

#8. I don't guarantee you to be a good man,
I promise you will be a better man

Unknown

#9. Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we
we divine it.

Sophie Swetchine

#10. He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

Confucius

#11. Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

P.J. Harvey

#12. It was the same old question, whether a declaration of purpose might protect you from failure.

Emily Witt

#13. In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

Israel Shenker

#14. We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

Martin Sheen

#15. Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

Sheri S. Tepper

#16. I bicycle 12,000-foot mountain passes, run, cross train, skate-ski, hike and mountain bike.

Carre Otis

#17. Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.

Heather Dorff

#18. Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune.
A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.

Noah Webster

#19. We're all different people and we're allowed to be different from one another. If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you. And then curtsy. No, don't curtsy. That might be too weird. Bow. And tip your imaginary hat. That'll show them.

Ellen DeGeneres

#20. When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.

Philippa Gregory