Quotes About Struggle

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.

I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs.

It's extremely depressing that a country of this magnitude, and where it thinks it lies in itself, can allow so many foodbanks to be operating in this country.

It was very difficult in 2007. I was out for a long time after an ankle operation in Antwerp, then when I returned, I was not at my best, of course.

The operation left me very emotional. I cry a lot anyway. I've always been the type to feel hurt easily, but now I hit rock bottom.

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.

There were some medical emergencies at home, be it my wife's brain tumour operation, my father's cancer. Eventually we lost him in 2018.

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

In my opinion, sadly, the music industry doesn't get its due in Bollywood.

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand.  To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

Todos estamos en el fango, pero algunos miramos las estrellas

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practise thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. He should decline to live like that, and should either steal or go on the rates, which is considered by many to be a form of stealing.

we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.