Warren Rudman Quotes

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.

Good things are often birthed from adversity.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Life throws curveballs.

Part of what you learn about life is that a wrecking ball can come out of nowhere, and it isn't just going to take out your left toe. It can hit you right in the middle and take you down.

So what if right now everything is wrong?

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

No victory is irreversible, no defeat is definitive. That is what makes life worth living.

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

When I said the city would be stronger, I didn't know that. I just hoped it. There are parts of you that say, 'Maybe we're not going to get through this.' You don't listen to them.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

I don't expect the sun to be always shining, or even want that to happen.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.