Adversity Quotes

"That I didn't belong. The other racers looked nothing like me. You know, they-they were bigger, and-and stronger, and so... confident. And when they started their engines... that was it. I knew I'd never be a racer. I just left. It was my one shot, and I didn't take it."

- Cruz Ramirez

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

- Yoda

"Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they."

- Yoda

"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will."

- Yoda

"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny."

- Yoda

"People out there said I was too small. It's those kinds of moments that pushed me to be where I'm at right now."

- Tim Lincecum

"Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them."

- Aldo Leopold

"Before the breathin' air is gone, Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime."

- Paul Williams and Roger Nichols

"We’re the advocates for the salmon, the animals, the birds, the water. We’re the advocates for the food chain. We’re an advocate for all of society."

- Billy Frank, Jr.

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."

- Ansel Adams

"Every gunshot in the hood is another dream interrupted, another future uncertain."

- Kendrick Lamar

"In the hood, poverty isn’t just an economic condition. It’s a war we’re born into."

- J. Cole

"The brighter people struggle with the disorder longer, they’re not believed, nobody can think they got as far as they did and have ADHD."

- Russell Barkley, Ph.D.

"I've seen what such feelings can do to a fully trained Jedi Knight. To the best of us."

- Ahsoka Tano

"Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."

- Yoda

"You are nothing. A scavenger girl is no match for the power in me. I am all the Sith."

- Emperor Palpatine

"You're just a child in a mask."

- Snoke

"I got a bad feeling about this."

- Lando Calrissian

"So this is how liberty dies … with thunderous applause."

- Queen Amidala

"It's a trap!"

- Admiral Ackbar

"The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural."

- Chancellor Palpatine

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."

- Yoda

"If once you start down the dark side, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan’s apprentice."

- Yoda

"Anakin, you're breaking my heart! You're going down a path I cannot follow!"

- Queen Padme Amidala

"Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope."

- J.K. Rowling

"I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."

- Ned Vizzini

"It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them."

- Jennifer Niven

"It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this!"

"I'm exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel."

"It feels like everyone else is moving on with their lives while I am stuck here, in this hole that I can't climb out of."