Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. S. Eliot

So the lover must struggle for words.

T. S. Eliot

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

Sylvester Stallone

We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.

Suzanne Massie

Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.

Rose Macaulay

Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

Ronda Rousey

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

Trick Daddy

I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.

Reza Aslan

Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.

Raymond Chandler

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.

Regis Philbin

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it.

Rhonda Byrne

People who have great lives think and talk about what they love more than what they don't love. And people who are struggling, think and talk about what they don't love more than what they do love.

Rhonda Byrne

The difference between someone who is struggling and someone who has a fabulous life comes down to one thing -- love. Those who have a great life imagine what they love and want, and they feel the love of what's they're imagining more than other people.

Rick Warren

When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

Rick Warren

In the end we must be merciful to the fallen, show grace to struggling, and be patient with the doubting. But when God's Word is clear we must not-and we cannot-back up, back off, back down, back out, or backslide from the truth.

Trevor Brooking

You're always going to be struggling if you haven't got a left foot.

Steve Valentine

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

Vince Staples

I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general.

Vince Gill

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

Robert G. Allen

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

Robert Graves

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

Stuart Wilde

Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day.

Stone Gossard

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

Stokely Carmichael

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Stokely Carmichael

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Steve Earle

The revolution starts now.

Stephen Spender

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

Stephen Fry

Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.

Capitalism involves struggle, but it has an invisible heart beating at its core that transforms people's lives.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.

Rush Limbaugh

I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.

William Cowper

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

Wayne Gretzky

As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can't get every guy ready every night, you're going to struggle.