Facing Adversity With Grace Quotes

#1. Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

Tommy Chong

#2. Watchmen were quiet drinkers on the whole. They just went from vertical to horizontal with the minimum amount of fuss, without starting major fights, and without damaging the fixtures overmuch

Terry Pratchett

#3. You don't need a big trip to have an adventure. There's plenty of adventure to be had right here.
If you can't have an adventure where you are, what makes you think you'll have an adventure anywhere else?
Truth or beard

Penny Reid

#4. He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth.

Kristine Grayson

#5. So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.

Libba Bray

#6. To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#7. These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.

Harold Ford Jr.

#8. I have many creative outlets. I sing, I like music, I like art, I paint, I draw. I like buying art. I read a lot, too. I love books. And I'm working on a clothing line, too.

Evan Ross

#9. My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.

Billy Joel

#10. You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.

Alexander Turney Stewart

#11. Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up.

Wes Fesler

#12. Luckily, just at the world's outer limit, right where a wandering soul needs it most, is a bar where he can get a beer.

Annia Ciezadlo

#13. The exercise of my reason itself was forbidden. But the questions never stopped coming, eventually leading to this one: "Why would a benevolent God set up the world like this, marking one half of the population to be second-class citizens? Or was it just men who did this?

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#14. Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.

John Lasseter

#15. To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

Jerry Springer