Unfavorable Conditions Quotes

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of me or my early life. It can all be condensed into a single sentence, and that sentence you will find in Gray's Elegy : "The short and simple annals of the poor." That's my life, and that's all you or anyone can make out of it.

To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.

There will always be some corners which are challenging and more dangerous than others.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

The most loyal acceptance by a defeated nation of an unfavorable treaty of peace need not preclude cherishing the hope that circumstances will lead to changes some day.

I hate going into the audition room. I find it the most nerve-wracking, inhumane experience, and I think it's such an inhospitable environment to give an honest account of the character and, I guess, your ability.

I played in Qatar only because I had a great offer and I am not ashamed to accept. We played in empty stadiums! I realised what a mistake I made and decided to leave the club immediately.

If teams come to Anfield, I don't think they will be expecting to get an easy game.

If you play a bad game, you can't say it was because you were injured.

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

Georgia is too cold and wet for me. I have knee problems and hip problems.

I felt that I didn't get a fair chance at Texas Tech to compete, for an assortment of reasons, but reasons I couldn't really control.

It looks like a bothering sort of day.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

I was born in a blizzard, a special out-of-season blizzard, the worst blizzard Oslo ever suffered. Family, home, circumstances, the country I lived in and the weather I was born in all conspired to make a skater of me.

Rule. In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

There is nothing wrong with fighting, but when you're fighting an uphill battle on an uneven playing field, that's what I don't like.

It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies.

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

Hawthorne sucks... It's a crazy place, and I'm happy that I was the weird one that got out.