Quotes About Struggle

The most important political competition over the next decades will not be between the right and left or between Republicans and Democrats. It will be between a majority of Americans who have been losing ground and an economic elite that refuses to recognize or respond to the majority's growing distress.

Economic bullying takes many forms but almost always preys on individuals and families that have little or no power and are at the mercy of those who do.

We are perilously close to losing an economy and a democracy that are meant to work for everyone and to replacing them with an economy and a government that will exist mainly for a few wealthy and powerful people.

In other words, the real reason the American economy tanked in 2008, and why we're still struggling to recover, is that the basic bargain has been broken. The big news isn't the slow return of jobs. It's the drop in pay. Most of the jobs we've gained over the last two years pay less than the jobs we've lost.

Let America be America again," pleaded Hughes: "The land that never has been yet— / And yet must be—the land where every man is free. / The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—

Si la vida fuera siempre fácil, sería insípida

A hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

Life is not all glided out to the measures of a Strauss waltz.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Writing is hard enough. Writing can be doubly hard when one tries to write to some unseen, unknown crowd of folks in Peoria or any other spot on the planet.

I would almost rather we had died that day than to have found ourselves here, lost somewhere between the dreaming and the coming true.

I know I am finished with a book when I never want to see it again. And if you have worked at it long enough to hate the sight of it, I promise you will come to love it again some sweet day. That is when you will know you did a writer's work.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.

So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

It is a lifelong battle to try to love someone through the chinks in their armor.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do — just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.