Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it. ”

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while. ”

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. ”

Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. ”

Every officer can be assured: you have the unequivocal support of the Department of Justice. We have your back, and you have our thanks. ”

When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992. ”

How can it be that the homosexual movement, at one or two percent of the population, gets treated with such solicitude while the Catholic population, which is over a quarter of the country, is given the back of the hand? ”

As we look back over the sweep of American history, it has been the American Presidency that has best fulfilled the vision of the Founders. It has brought to our Republic a dynamism and effectiveness that other democracies have lacked. ”

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ”

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. ”