Ordeal Quotes

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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.

Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

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?

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

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)

I've gone through hell and back.

And we passed through the cavern of rats. And we passed through the path of boiling steam. And we passed through the country of the blind. And we passed through the slough of despond. And we passed through the vale of tears. And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.

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?

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.

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

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.

I wouldn't call going into the Premier League an ordeal. I would say the Championship is more of an ordeal than the Premier League.

I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

The forest has always been a place, in fairy tales and in Shakespeare, where you go and discover who you are. You get stripped of everything you thought you were, some type of ordeal takes place, and you come out stronger.

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.