Quotes About Struggle

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most

And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Come on, man.... Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.

The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

When a man's struggle begins within oneself, the man is worth something.

Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you. But it doesn't make you white.