Quotes About Struggle

Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.

Maybe those sorts of yes or no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well … they're just a fathomless collection of greys and I don't do so well on the mid-tones.

The only time we get to fight the powers of darkness is during one of the kingdom's frequent power cuts

más tarde rebajadas a la categoría del ornamento ideológico por el militante gordezuelo, afeminado, incompetente, astuto y conservador que las usurpó, acabarían convertidas en a parafernalia cada vez más podrida y huérfana de significado con la que un puñado de patanes luchó durante cuarenta años de pesadumbre para justificar su regimen de mierda.

Nadie. Nadie se acuerda siquiera de por qué murieron, de por qué no tuvieron mujer e hijos y una habitación con sol; nadie, y, menos que nadie, la gente por la que pelearon.

Me acostaba llorando, me despertaba llorando y me pasaba el día escondiéndome de la gente, para poder llorar.

olí a medicinas y a años de encierro y de verdura hervida y sobre todo a viejo, y supe que ese era el olor desdichado de los héroes

Pero las heridas de verdad son las otras. Las que nadie ve. Las que la gente lleva en secreto. Ésas son las que lo explican todo».

Siempre se dice que el deporte europeo por excelencia es el fútbol, pero es mentira: el deporte europeo por excelencia es la guerra.

Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.

Long years ago, we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance

When Christ said, "take up your cross daily and follow me" (Luke 9:23), He put an end to all such thinking. He represented the Christian life as a daily struggle to change. The counselee can change if the Spirit of God dwells within him. Of course, if He does not, there is no such hope.

It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.

Van bizonyos szakadt méltóság a magányos bukásban.

You hate Tad Allagash. Go home. Cut your losses. Stay. Go for it. You are a republic of voices tonight.

Boy! There are times when I get the feeling that science develops things that are supposed to be good for us, but that just make trouble." Dr. Tresselt's blue eyes seemed to throw out sparks of amusement. "I know how you feel, Joe," he said. "But my stars, boy, nobody can be alive and never have any trouble! Being alive is just meeting troubles every day and overcoming them. Just to stand up straight against the pull of gravity is a fight, isn't it?

Oh, we're human, all right," she said. "Humans have always been very good at killing.

forces of nature. A man either ran for

Maybe his worst nightmare had finally become his new reality.

Hey, pretty damn smart aren't you? You made it just ugly enough. inconspicuous. Nobody looks twice. I have to admit, that was a hard one for me. I think one of the designers had a breakdown. Cried for an hour

L'humain vous gêne aux entournures dans la famille. Il vous faut un tête-à-tête avec le destin et la mort. Et tuer votre père et coucher avec votre mère et apprendre tout cela après, avidement, mot par mot. Quel breuvage, hein, les mots qui vous condamnent ? Et comme on les boit goulûment quand on s'appelle Å'dipe, ou Antigone.

Le géant, qui souffrait, blessé, De mille morts, de mille peines, Eut un sourire triste et beau ; Et, avant de mourir, regardant le roseau, Lui dit : « Je suis encore un chêne. »

Power itself must be abolished -and not solely because of a refusal to be dominated, which is at the heart of all traditional struggles- but also, just as violently, in the refusal to dominate. Intelligence cannot, can never be in power because intelligence consists of this double refusal.

For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end.