It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

- Joseph Campbell

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.

- Li Na

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

- Louis Pasteur

Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.

- Joshua A. Tucker

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

- John Sergeant Wise

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

- Jay Kay

The automobile crash was... devastating in ways that I still cannot really bear to think about... It took me many years to recover. In some ways, I never have.

- James Rosenquist

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

- Jeanette Winterson

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

- Jean Giraudoux

After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.

- Jessica Ennis

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

- Adam Sandler

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

- Joe Namath

A fighter can always recover, and you never know what they're going to come back with.

- Holly Holm

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

- Hunter S. Thompson

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

- Henry David Thoreau

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

- Fran Drescher

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

- Claudia Rankine

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

- Beryl Bainbridge

In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

- Bo Bennett