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The ordeal is part of the commitment
Esquire Interview 10/10 — Philip Roth

They were presently on hold with Comcast customer service and might not emerge for hours, if indeed they survived the ordeal at all. — Rick Riordan

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology ... — Susan Sontag

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. — Elizabeth Bowen

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. — Emile M. Cioran

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track. — Scott Westerfeld

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. — Thomas Malthus

It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others. — Anne McCaffrey

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them. — Mahatma Gandhi

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man. — Henry David Thoreau

The ordeal is not that truth does not win; it is that it wins in the end. — Raheel Farooq

She thought little of her ordeal. Cruelty was part of nature, like a winter frost; something to be survived and then forgotten (p.689) — Tim Willocks

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself. — Virginia Graham

Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal. — John Fowles

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. — Dean Koontz

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups. — Kamisese Mara

Marriage ... is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) — Joseph Campbell

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. — Anais Nin

THE LOOK ON ADRI'S FACE WHEN CINDER ENTERED THE apartment almost made the whole ghastly ordeal worthwhile. — Marissa Meyer

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. — Amber Frey

ordeal, remember — Leah Fleming

As promised, Kyoto Station turned out to be an ordeal. For ninety minutes I searched for a way out of the sixteen-story train station, — Alice Steinbach

The difference between an adventure and an ordeal is attitude. — Bob Bitchin

Only after an ordeal of painful self-probing are we likely to discover what we actually believe about God. — A.W. Tozer

Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page becomes an ordeal: what's the use of writing in order to say exactly what we had to say? — Emil Cioran

If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first. — Norman Cousins

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

Is the girl all right?" "She's had an ordeal but she's young," Augustus said. "She won't forget it, but she might outlive it. — Larry McMurtry

I wanted to lie in bed with her at night, and bemoan the ordeal of planning a wedding. I wanted it all. — Christina Lauren

Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience. — Bruce Fordyce

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. — Winston S. Churchill

Well, at least I can spare myself the ordeal of a whole battery of personality tests. My personality is poor; that much is clear. — Susan Juby

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. — Joseph Campbell

Close the wounds, and the 22-hour surgical ordeal was over. The Siamese — Ben Carson

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends. — Sylvia Plath

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

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

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal. — Howard Barker

The difference between an ordeal and an adventure is attitude. — Bob Bitchin

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. — Jacques Derrida

Going out is such a hassle. The singles club scene where you sit down, talk, get to know each other, hang out-it's such a big ordeal. — Brian Austin Green

The ordeals of others ...
prepare us, and
later become the compass ...
in our time of ordeal. — John-Talmage Mathis

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. — John Berryman

At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal. — Walker Percy

You will be tempted to think this ordeal marks you as weak. Instead, remember it as proof of your strength. — Cassandra Clare

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal. — Maurice Saatchi

Richard felt oddly proud. He had proved himself in the ordeal. He was One of Them. He would Go, and he would Bring Back Food. He puffed out his chest. — Neil Gaiman

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal. — Peg Kehret

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. — Maria Mitchell

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

Lirael left in a daze of happiness. She had survived the ordeal. She had been accepted. She was going to be a librarian! — Garth Nix

The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being. — Victor Hugo

Under the long and discurtained ordeal of the morrow's dawn, that — Henry James

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling. — Damon Albarn

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? — Lillian Smith

Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close. — Margery Allingham

If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known. — Anonymous

the ordeal for more than two or three — Miklos Nyiszli

As the sociologist Daniel Bell later observed, Oppenheimer's ordeal signified that the postwar "messianic role of the scientists" was now at an end. — Kai Bird

Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure — Bob Bitchin

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. — Jarvis Cocker

Never marry who doesn't love you,
If you do it, your ordeal will turn into hell. — Miguel Angel Saez Gutierrez

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you. — Muriel Barbery

It is over now, the ordeal of the Union. The great crimson gash in the nation's history. — LIFE Magazine

Preparation:
allows you to prevent ...
the intensity of the ordeal. — John-Talmage Mathis

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

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start. — Zane Grey