Quotes About Struggle

When you've grown up with limited resources, there's almost a narrative that everything's unlikely and the odds are against you. I guess then, if things start to happen, you immediately think, 'Do I even deserve this?'

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

The conflict in the Middle East is complex, multi-faceted, and unlikely to be resolved anytime soon.

My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.

I'm not sure I'm very confident at all. There was a lot of my life when I thought I was fundamentally unlovable.

Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.

The Champions League is so difficult, It's like a lottery: sometimes you're just unlucky.

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

I'm kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.

I'm a huge romantic but I've been unlucky in love.

I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.

I think I'm both lucky but also unlucky, because sometimes I miss so many matches.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

I could stifle my voice, or strip it. I know that I could, because we can do anything we put our minds to. I know that I could, but it feels very unnatural for me to strip my prose like that, in part because place is so important to me.

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.

I wanted to get punished, and I took unnecessary punishment when I was fighting.