Ordeals quotes

Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.
-- Bruce Fordyce

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A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,
-- Howard Barker

#Play #Certain #Ordeals
Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.
-- Peg Kehret

#Real #Ordeals
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
-- Tahar Ben Jelloun

#Country #Egypt #Ordeals
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
-- Zane Grey

#Difficulty #Ordeals
The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?
-- Lillian Smith

#Kind #Crisis #Ordeals

Cultural identity is of course connected to this issue. When I was younger, it was inspiring to write about the people that raised me, especially their near-insane struggle to live between America and Middle East. But like many writers, I want to paint on as broad a canvas as possible.
Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.
[Mouse is] with us. The dog is a handicap-assist animal." The kid lifted his eyebrows. "My mouth is partially paralyzed," I said. "It makes it hard for me to rea. He's here to help me with the big words. Tell me if I'm supposed to push or pull on doors, that kind of thing.
We need to glance at our problems and stare at Jesus!
Are we to say that any individual who's on ***** that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.
People seem to think fighters are lovely people when they meet us. It's 'cause we don't have to prove anything.
The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that has led to its continued sponsorship of antireligious-message movies.
Say my husband had a dangerous job and I wasn't with him, I don't know how you go, 'Oh honey, how was it with the police department today? You got all your fingers and toes today?' It would scare me. I'd have to become a police officer and work with him; I couldn't do it.
Respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.