Quotes about struggle
struggle people individuality
all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people. Rita Mae Brown
struggle blood flesh
Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap! Thomas Hood
struggle heart darkness
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness. Thomas Huxley
struggle science thinking
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
struggle self law
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless self-assertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect, but shall help his fellows... It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence... Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process.
struggle suffering vision
Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation. Thomas de Quincey
struggle angel government
In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too. Timothy Garton Ash
struggle ignorance angel
The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle. Rumi
struggle learning men
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
struggle home men
In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph. Tom Robbins
struggle stories mines
Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers, Tom Bodett
struggle simplicity program
Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out. Tony Hoare
struggle monkeys six
One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues. Toni Cade Bambara
struggle thinking interesting
I think the most interesting thing about any story is how people change. That's usually a struggle, because change is pretty much an uncomfortable thing. Toni Collette
struggle littles tiny
If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools. Stephen Crane
struggle men challenges
The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. Stephen Covey
struggle important gaps
The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
struggle goal people
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
struggle mean people
As the struggle for survival has subsided, the question has emerged: survival for what? Ever more people have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. Viktor E. Frankl
struggle people admire
The people I admire most are those who struggle for everyone. Vanessa Redgrave
struggle sleep
The hard part for me is rest. I am a person who stays up late. If I go to bed early, I don't sleep, but I know I have to rest. That is always a struggle for me. Usain Bolt
struggle writing trying
I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult. Susie Orbach
struggle writing matter
Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre. Susan Wiggs
struggle mean eye
I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow. Susanna Clarke
struggle mean journey
I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role. Suzanne Collins
struggle awards long
Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman. Taslima Nasrin
struggle towns actresses
I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town. Taryn Manning
struggle dark men
I like naked women. I'm a bloke. I'm supposed to like them. We're born like that. We like naked women as soon as we're pulled out of one.... When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark"... The story of male achievement through the ages, feeble though it may have been, has been the story of our struggle to get a better look at your bottoms. Steven Moffat
struggle thinking resistance
We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance. Steven Pressfield
struggle procrastination adversity
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.
struggle mean defeat
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. Steven Brust
struggle thinking years
I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent. Steven Pinker
struggle persons
A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle. Susan Minot