Quotes about struggle
struggle mean revolution
If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself. Frank Knight
struggle games two
Docs are more exhausting because of the physical labor that's required. Feature filmmaking is more exhausting because of politics and the bullshit. You get to the point of rolling film and until you lock picture it's one political game after another. They're both struggles for survival. They are two different worlds. George Hickenlooper
struggle dark winning
We are the most illusioned society on the planet. We have to become adults. And it's hard; it's painful. I struggle with despair all the time. But I'm not going to let it win. It is incumbent upon all of us that at the same time we recognize how dark the future is, we also recognize the absolute imperative of resistance in every form possible. Chris Hedges
struggle ecosystems understanding
To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.
struggle world worship
I sometimes struggle with how to properly respond to God’s magnitude in a world bent on ignoring or merely tolerating Him. But know this: God will not be tolerated. He instructs us to worship and fear Him. Francis Chan
struggle illustration events
A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object. Francis Bacon
struggle islands
I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island. Foxy Brown
struggle men suffering
Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can. George Washington
struggle book writing
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. George Orwell
struggle men forever
Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever. George Meyer
struggle reflection men
Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. George Meredith
struggle soul impulse
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession. G. Stanley Hall
struggle world definitions
I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over! Fyodor Dostoevsky
struggle boredom vain
Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. Friedrich Nietzsche
struggle dark men
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil.
struggle class giving
The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps. Frantz Fanon
struggle stories ends
I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end. Jeanette Winterson
struggle rights world
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed. Jim Costa
struggle artist made
I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now. Jessie J
struggle men eight
Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status. Jewel
struggle moving home
My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.
struggle writing mind
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind. Jack Kerouac
struggle winning sea
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas? Isaac Watts
struggle grief writing
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. Isabel Allende
struggle luxury doe
As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.
struggle mean men
I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.
struggle taken steps
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. George Bernard Shaw
struggle ambition novices
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
struggle ideas perfection
Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that. Gelsey Kirkland
struggle years magic
Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament. Gary McCord
struggle successful organization
All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders. Gary North
struggle believe land
I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa. Gamal Abdel Nasser
struggle literature world
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world. Franz Kafka