Rajon Rondo Quotes

I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.

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• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Adversity

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Up
  • God
  • Night

• I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Wish
  • Adversity
  • I Wish

• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Spring
  • Winter
  • Adversity

• Back, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Friend
  • Adversity

• I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Road
  • Poverty
  • Financial

• The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • World
  • Great
  • Adversity

• People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People
  • Adversity

• Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

  

  James Keller
  • Up
  • Long
  • Wall

• I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

  

  Paula Cole
  • Success
  • Adversity

• Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

  

  Brett Favre
  • Up
  • She
  • Adversity

• I'm not fearful for myself, because I've seen adversity, and I can see it again. But I feel very upset and anguished when I see images of young lawyers beaten up.

  

  Asma Jahangir
  • Up
  • Adversity

• Adversity creates comedy.

  

  Darren Star
  • Comedy
  • Adversity

• It's always amazing when a fan will say you've helped them through some kind of adversity.

  

  James Arthur
  • Amazing
  • Adversity

• In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.

  

  John Churton Collins
  • Friends
  • Adversity

• I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Past
  • Small
  • Goals

• I was just a little girl watching TV and wanting to be in it. My parents had no idea how to get me there, but here I am as a part of this great cast on the Disney Channel. Truly, if you just want to do this, then you have to commit to it.

  

  Brenda Song
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Girl

• I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you're from, because there's always been this big cloud over America saying you have to live in L.A. or you have to live in New York to make it. I always knew it didn't matter as long as you had the songs.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Live
  • Songs
  • New York

• By transporting Asian species to North America, and North American species to Australia, and Australian species to Africa, and European species to Antarctica, we are, in effect, reassembling the world into one enormous supercontinent—what biologists sometimes refer to as the New Pangaea.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Species
  • Continent
  • Biologists

• The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Gym
  • Eating

• Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

  

  James Ellroy
  • People
  • Rock

• I don't know, you go through what you go through. You handle adversity, and I think it made me hungrier.

  

  Rajon Rondo
  • Adversity