Quotes About Struggle

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

Oh we battled. Dad would beat me every time. I don't think I ever beat my dad in 1-on-1. I'd cry in front of my friends, everything. That didn't matter to him. He kept on beating me anyway. He was so competitive.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

It's not really part of the game to say, 'Oh, it's a batter's game; it's a batter's game' - I don't know why it goes on. It's a beautiful game that's greatly competitive between bat and ball.

Oh, I can't master the smoldering look to save my life.

Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

Oh God, I've done telesales. It doesn't get much lower than that, really. That's the job I enjoyed the least.

When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.

Oh my God, my English is the worst!

Low ceilings, low doors. I hate that. Oh my God, it's the worst. This world is too small for me.

There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she's 21, she's totally flailing. Your story gives me hope.' I put my mom through that.

Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel well. And you know, I sit a lot because I write, and I gained a whole bunch of weight. My vanity just got to me, and I was like, 'I've got to do something!'

I can be going through nothing, but within me, in my head, oh my God! It can be a circus.

When I used to work at Friday's, in a restaurant, that endless appetizer, that was my worst enemy as a server. Oh my god.

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

I'm a kid from Ohio in an industry that drives people insane.

When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in a strange central Ohio town of 22,000, Wooster. When it looked like I was growing up to be a wimp I was forced to live with my father, which I did not want to do.

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.

No Ohio family should be forced to go hungry during the holidays or any time.

Working families in Ohio have been hurt badly. It started really with the Bush years.

We're poor black kids from Akron, Ohio. When you tell stories about people like us, sometimes it's going to be considered a social-impact story.

I fought fire with oil.

If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.