Quotes About Struggle

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.

During earlier occasions, I was fighting big parties - the BJP, Congress and BSP - and had also to face factional fight within the SP. I had to take on Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati and Azam Khan. I did have the support of Mulayam Singh Yadav though.

I've dreamed on numerous occasions that I've lost the biggest event in my life, and there was absolutely nothing that I could do about it.

On numerous different occasions I have had people tell me that I am only booked because of my dad, because of who I was dating, or any other exceptions other than my hard work, so in my mind I wanted to put in the extra hours in the ring.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

It would be hard to know what gigantic proportion of human life is spent in this same ratio of years under water on legs to one premature, exhausted moment on wings.

all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

It is clear to me now that the universe in its truculence doesn't permit itself to be that well known.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

His decision had been made in the valley, and it lay as an iron warp in his mind. He could have turned back no more easily than he could have killed himself.

I tell you, say the rich, the poor are naught but dirty wind welling in air-shafts over the cinders and droppings of the past, their voices thick with grease and ordure, sewer-greed to corrode the ear with the horrors of the past and the voids of new stupidity. One could drown waiting for the poor to make one fine distinction. Yes, destroy us say the rich and you lose the roots of God.

The Creator had His relative successes and His abysmal failures. While it must be admitted that He never gave up, even if He was not always in firm control of the earth He had fashioned, it is also incontestable that earthquakes and ice ages brought many an interruption to His experiments and savaged many of His pursuits. Why? Because He had incorrectly designed this globe of earth in the first place.

The Anti-Semiten. Why don't they ever learn? Why does God permit it?" Roth sneered. "God is a luxury I don't give myself.

The moments like these, the passing doubts, were the temptations that caught you if you were not careful.

Piety can also serve as a wall to keep the pious from recognizing how profoundly angry they are at God—this God who has failed to treat them by what they see as their proper right.

How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.