William Gurnall Quotes

And it's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard rain gonna fall.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been grand chords.

There are some things you can only learn in a storm.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

Life was a storm to wander through.

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side.

To choose always the hardest.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)