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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start. -- Zane Grey
Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal. -- Maurice Saatchi
Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups. -- Kamisese Mara
A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal. -- Howard Barker
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. -- Thomas Malthus
I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. -- Maria Mitchell
I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place. -- Amanda Lindhout
These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. -- Jacques Derrida
I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. -- Paula Abdul
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. -- Winston Churchill
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
Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling. -- Damon Albarn
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. -- Jarvis Cocker
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. -- John Berryman
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. -- Steve Buyer
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know. -- Brooks Atkinson
I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end. -- Amber Frey
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal? -- Rene Cassin
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. -- William Manchester
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
She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. -- Margaret Sanger
There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal. -- Jasper Carrott
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
Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure. -- Liam Neeson
One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal. -- Mariella Frostrup
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would be quite an ordeal, too, with all the events which go on for two days. I'd think carefully about what I was doing the day it is announced and maybe not be around, or be around, but elsewhere. -- Peter Higgs
Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure -- Bob Bitchin
The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10 -- Philip Roth
Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal. -- William Shakespeare
A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal, -- Howard Barker
The difference between an adventure and an ordeal is attitude. -- Bob Bitchin
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) -- Joseph Campbell
Marriage is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) -- Joseph Campbell
Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience. -- Bruce Fordyce
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... -- Susan Sontag
It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal. -- Elizabeth Crook
Never marry who doesn't love you,If you do it, your ordeal will turn into hell. -- Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»
Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal. -- Peg Kehret
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being. -- Victor Hugo
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. -- Elizabeth Bowen
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. -- Anais Nin
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. -- Emile M. Cioran
The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you. -- Muriel Barbery
Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next. -- Virgil
The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive -- Susan Smith
We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man. -- Henry David Thoreau
Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. -- Dean Koontz
If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first. -- Norman Cousins
Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. -- William James
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity. -- C.D. Payne
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Going out is such a hassle. The singles club scene where you sit down, talk, get to know each other, hang out-it's such a big ordeal. -- Brian Austin Green
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. -- Joseph Campbell
For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself. -- Virginia Graham
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
High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track. -- Scott Westerfeld
We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal. -- Hassan Blasim
Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities. -- Bill Berry
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment? -- Seneca the Younger
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship. -- Benjamin Cheever
The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal. -- Kieran Culkin
The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels. -- Isabella Beeton
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
I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca) -- Daphne du Maurier
Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self. -- Tom Robbins
Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths. -- John Fante
I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on... We dealt with it. It's over. And now we're moving on. -- James Toney
How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?" -- Rene Cassin
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact. -- Andre Derain
Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous ordeal of having sewing needles pushed through their tongues. -- Ward Churchill

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