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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups. -- Kamisese Mara
Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal. -- Maurice Saatchi
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. -- Thomas Malthus
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. -- Amartya Sen
The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you. -- Muriel Barbery
Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. -- Dean Koontz
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. -- Winston Churchill
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
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
We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy. -- Alexander Herzen
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
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
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. -- Huston Smith
But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. -- Antonin Artaud
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
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
Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical--is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
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
Shouldn't we suppose that many of our most painful ordeals will look quite different a million years from now, as we recall them on the New Earth? What if one day we discover that God has wasted nothing in our life on Earth? What if we see that every agony was part of giving birth to an eternal joy? -- Randy Alcorn
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right. -- Yann Martel
All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation. -- Brigham Young
The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?" -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales. -- Jill Paton Walsh

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