Quotes About Struggle

Because it often proves difficult to downsize a work force even if people don't have anything to do.

I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

The struggle in that world will not be government's. It will be to assure that essential liberties are preserved in this environment of perfect control. As Siva Vaidhyanathan puts it

The problem with success, even a little success, is that it changes you. You are no longer walking along the same precipice that drove you to do great work in the first place. Now you have something to defend: a reputation, money in the bank, a brand, real customer expectations. Success can take the edge away.

He'd never been the type of awaken easily, always struggling to cross that daily border between slumber and the responsibilities of the wide awake world. But that day he had opened his eyes and known. Death had announced itself, named a time and place, and left him instantly alert.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

The children of the prophets of the Lord, Prince, priest, and people, spurned by zealot hate. Hounded from sea to sea, from state to state, The West refused them, and the East abhorred. No anchorage the known world could afford.

When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.

He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

Peace, gentlemen, it is well known, does not come of its own accord, and neither does freedom. Peace has enemies. Peace must be won by the sword.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism.

Everyone has enemy; you will learn all that so soon as you are little older, and without cause she is mine

I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt, in the whirl and horror of my mind, on the very point of submitting, just as nervous people are said to throw themselves over precipices through sheer dread of falling.

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.

It is useless work that darkens the heart.

If you can see a thing whole ... it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need a distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.

Violence gains nothing, killing wins nothing -- only sometimes nothing is what people want. Death is what they want. And they get it.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.