Quotes About Struggle

hearing Monty Tinsman's name caused Jayson to scowl again. "He also said the woman is a witch in high heels." Jayson sighed. Another part of this ordeal to deal with. "She's supposed to be here tomorrow." He glanced at Jack. "Why don't you show her around?" He wasn't hopeful, but he gave it a shot.

Take/Throw a Punch

Mal tinha chegado ao país e queria encontrar todas as portas abertas ou explodi-las a dinamite. Eu já sabia que as portas estavam apenas encostadas. Talvez amanhã eu me visse eventualmente perdido num labirinto de 700portas.

Busquei abrigo num quiosque, e me perguntei se algum dia saberia viver longe do mar, em cidade que não terminasse assim num acidente, mas agonizando para todos os lados.

Al final de tantos sinsabores, creo que hasta me he vuelto más guapo, como sucede a quien sufre un proceso sin saber por qué.

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.

My prime of youth is but a frost of cares;My feast of joy is but a dish of pain;My crop of corn is but a field of tares;And all my good is but vain hope of gain:The day is past, and yet I saw no sun;And now I live, and now my life is done.

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

This looked easier on YouTube.

The world maddens some, and brutifies others.

The world constantly sways me between poet and malcontent.

In play, there are two pleasures for your choosing— The one is winning and the other losing.

Failure is not frailty. Success never guarantees.

He couldn't get a ball to stay on the alley. When he had fired about fifteen balls and hadn't yet reached the cluster of pins, his annoyance began to show out through his clothes. He wouldn't let it show in his face; but after another fifteen balls he was not able to control his face; he didn't utter a word, but he exuded mute blasphemy from every pore.

To cut the Gordian knot is not the same as to untie it. Children and lunatics cut what the poet patiently spends his life in trying to untie.

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

It's difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have — or are.

It's all in the mind and a bit in the heart but it goes in the body and that's where all the trouble comes in.

Our biochemistry bolts and revolts at our modern life.

A corpulent man strolled in front of us, sweating and drinking soda from a straw. He was fat enough that each step cost him something.

The toughest battle is Mind.

...certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort, and like them, are often successfully cured by remedies in themselves very nauseous and unpalatable.

[M]y theory... there was a crack in Pansay's head and a little bit of the Dark World came through and pressed him to death.