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Quotes About Struggle

The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.
~ Ernie Pyle
I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.
~ Joseph Heller
I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
~ Kiefer Sutherland
Without work all life goes rotten.
~ Albert Camus
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.
~ Ira Levin
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
~ Patricia Heaton
I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.
~ Pete Domenici
As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.
~ Mariska Hargitay
I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.
~ Werner Herzog
I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.
~ Joe Shuster
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
~ Seneca the Younger
Being broken is both God's work and ours. He brings His pressure to bear, but we have to make the choice...All day long the choice will be before us in a thousand ways.
~ Roy Hession
It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
~ Immanuel Kant
We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.
~ John McCain
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
~ H. G. Wells
I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
~ Steve Earle
For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
~ Russell Banks
I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.
~ Emile Hirsch
My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
~ Griffin Dunne
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
~ Tennessee Ernie Ford
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
~ James Lee Burke
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
~ Albert Camus
One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.
~ Nan Goldin
My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.
~ Mike Leigh