Quotes About Struggle

Do you know why they failed? Because the universe, let alone regular society, does not give a shit about you or your dreams. I don't mean that in a negative way – it's just the cold, boring truth.

Te das cuenta de que la vida es un juego de pulgadas. También el fútbol. Porque en los dos juegos, el de la vida y el del fútbol, el margen de error es tan pequeño… En este equipo luchamos por esa pulgada. En este equipo, nos destrozamos por esa pulgada… Porque sabemos que la suma de todas esas pulgadas marcará la diferencia entre ganar y perder.

I am a pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.

I have a feeling of - wanting to confront my enemies. No, of wanting to confront the enemy part of my friends.

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.

If Jesus encountered demons and evil spirits during his lifetime his followers likewise may face them.

But although the young Houston could secret himself away for hours enraptured by the classics, in a classroom he remained, from all indications, terrible.

He ran with a staggering gate the last few feet and managed to grab the quarterdeck

Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate one's fellows;

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

it's well known that captivity makes queers of us all—

Turned to religion in times of temptation.

and work meant an end to my diet of lotus flowers.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

His own life made very little noise of its own, and he found that in silence there was something downright perilous: It had enemies in it that only sound could drive out.

Mal Reynolds had a real knack of making bad situations worse.

Maybe Mal Reynolds always needed someone to fight against. He defined himself by what he resisted, and therefore without anything to oppose, he was nothing.

For all that sentients have achieved with weapons and machines, life remains an ongoing battle for survival, with the strong or the smart at the top of the heap, and the rest kept in check by firepower and laws.

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

The tragedy of a man who has found himself out.

We're just two punks, Frank. God kissed us on the brow that night. He gave us all that two people can ever have and we just weren't the kind that could have it. [I]t's a big airplane engine, that takes you through the sky, right up to the top of the mountain. But when you put it in a Ford, it just shakes it to pieces. That's what we are, Frank, a couple of Fords.