Quotes About Struggle

Once you start crossing over and displaying feminine ways, you're a target. It's sad, it's humiliating, and it's confusing.

I'll never get to my target size or weight.

I suffered during the military intervention of May 27, 1960, and then again on March 12, 1971 and again on September 12, 1980, and I was targeted February 28, 1997. My respect for the military aside, I have always been against interventions.

I've been targeted since I was 17, 18, 19.

LGBTQ people are still targeted by hate that lives in both laws and in hearts.

Professional athletes, most of us came from the streets. We feel like we know the streets and can pretty much protect ourselves. But now we're in a position where we're being targeted, and the stakes are just too high.

My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

Getting kicked out of Cube has tarnished my reputation and disgraced myself.

You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.

In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.

Getting back into shape is always a difficult task for me.

We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

Too often, U.N. peacekeepers face an impossible task in countries that are still at war and where there is no real peace to keep.

We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be.

Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back on track. And each time, the task became more and more and more daunting.

If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something new is almost an impossible task.

Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together. They should be honored and helped in their heroic efforts. But any mother's or father's task is much easier where there are two functioning parents in the home.

Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.