A Quote by Virginia Woolf

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf
British - Author
January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.

Suze Orman

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I had in mind going worse than waterboarding. It's enough. We have right now a country that's under siege. It's under siege from a people, from - we're like living in medieval times. If I have it to do and if it's up to me, I would absolutely bring back waterboarding. And if it's going to be tougher than waterboarding, I would bring that back, too.

Donald Trump

The supportive care that we're able to provide in the United States is so much better, so much more sophisticated, than what's available in West Africa. ... So we can move that needle of survival way down. Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.

William Schaffner

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Michel de Montaigne

In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

Dean Koontz

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

William Makepeace Thackeray

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.

Alan King

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

Kirby Larson

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

Susie Orbach

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Epicurus

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

A pretty girl is better than a plain one. A leg is better than an arm. A bedroom is better than a living room. An arrival is better that a departure. A birth is better than a death. A chase is better than a chat. A dog is better than a landscape. A kitten is better than a dog. A baby is better than a kitten. A kiss is better than a baby. A pratfall is better than anything.