Quotes About Struggle

There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.

The rock n' roll lifestyle did have its perks, but it wasn't all limos and parties in the early days.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.

I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

Cancer didn't have to be permanent; in my case, I'm lucky that my cancer is curable, but infertility was. And it was the first time I realized that cancer wasn't just something seasonal; it wasn't something that was going to pass with the summer. It was something that was going to change my life forever.

My back is permanently messed up.

My mom would say I'm a good kid... but I put them through a lot. I was rejecting religion and, not permanently, also kind of rejecting the things that they'd taught me, and just trying to think for myself.

My father didn't want me to go to New York City, and I was determined to go. Learning to give myself the permission to be who I was in the world and to make my own choices was hard.

I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

Anorexia is pernicious and not something which goes away overnight.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

Feminism is like any female-dominated group - a perpetual catfight.

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

Getting help for my issues was one of the hardest things I've ever done, because when I get dangerously sad or manic, those feelings seek to perpetuate themselves.

I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.

My grandfather was an American Communist, and he married my grandmother, who was a Russian Communist. During the 1950s, the McCarthy era, my family was viciously persecuted.