Quotes About Struggle

I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

if we don't rebel, if we're not physically in an active rebellion, then it's spiritual death.

The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

My entire state of being's changed because I'v become my sexuality: female, straight, wanting to love men, be fucked. Is there a way of living with this like a gay person, proudly? (p. 186)

But even so I can't stop writing even for a day--I'm doing it to save my life. These letters're the first time I've ever tried to talk about ideas because I need to, not just to amuse or entertain.

Katherine, who tried so hard in London to be best friends with Virginia Woolf, who hated her, because Katherine was the kind of naif-imbecile that the literary men adored and championed at her expense.

She hardly slept or ate, she forgot to comb her hair. The more she studied, the harder it became to speak or know anything with certainty. People were afraid of her; she forgot how to teach her classes. She became that word that people use to render difficult or driven women weightless: Gabi Teisch was "quirky.

Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective, they live in dumpy slum apartments and would knife each other for $5. Jerome prefers the painters and the film-makers who live in Soho and Tribeca. There's money there, at least the things they fight about are real.

We put you to the test; we failed.

Dear Dick, I'm not sure I still want to fuck you. At least, not in the same way. Sylvère keeps talking about us disturbing your "fragility", but I'm not sure that I agree. There's nothing so remarkable in one more woman adoring you. It's a "problem" you're confronting all the time. I'm just a particularly annoying one, one who refuses to behave... And yet I feel this tenderness towards you, after all we've been through.

What's the matter?" you asked, seizing an idea. "Did I burst your balloon - destroy the fantasy?" I struggled for a way to answer this without my clothes. ... Well his was very cruel, but loving you'd become a full-time job and I wasn't ready to be unemployed.

A la edad de 38 años y en el atardecer de una vida promedio en el siglo xvi, por su trayectoria Loyola no ofrecía ningún potencial de líder: fracasó en dos carreras, fue arrestado dos veces, tuvo múltiples choques con el Santo Oficio y otras autoridades, y carecía de dinero. No tenía a su haber ninguna realización, ninguna perspectiva clara, nada de seguidores y ningún plan.

Fate is a bitch, but there you go.

They have this majestic, glorious agony that they reawaken every day just by awakening.

It didn't matter how wonderful Andrew was and how much effort he was prepared to put into their relationship. While Lou didn't feel the same way, his love was only building a tower without foundations.

Humour is the courtesy of despair

It's not such a bad idea, at any time, to be seen as FIGHTING, especially when you might just win.

Maybe a person doesn't truly feel alive until he fights to stay that way.

It was hard enough to design chips in normal times. Doing so while battling the KGB was impossible. A

Hell on Earth started LONG before you got here.

The gods gave us horses so we wouldn't have to fight on foot.

By any measure, the PiL show was a catastrophe for the band, but they left the Olympic with a new resolve. Says Pérez, "Because it was kind of a big deal for us, our wives came with us, and everyone in the family came, and they were all hanging out in the wings of the backstage area. We went around the curtain and went back. Our families were in tears. I had spit hanging from my chin. But