Quotes About Struggle

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. —Sally Kempton

What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome?

The season of evil, I echoed. Protect your soul.

M?s?iau, kaip sunku iš pirmo žvilgsnio pasakyti, apie k? žmon?s galvoja ir kokie jie pal?ž?.

In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good. When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself. When you're trying to do god, you have to worry about everyone.

They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them.

What happened to you as a child, particularly something bad, changed you, absolutely and completely. It was like part of your brain became closed off and refused to mature any further. As an adult you were powerless to fight against it. It was simply who you were until the day you died. There was no "therapy" that could cure it. That wall was built and nothing could tear it down.

And he goes round with a fat roll of dollar bills, and got this nice farm, and all them fancy machines, and man let his family starve.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal

Woe be to the wug who forgets that destroying one part of a thing does not equal victory

Lou looked at Davis there praying like God was in his heart and home, while his family remained behind in rags and fear and would have starved except for the kindness of Louisa Cardinal. She could only shake her head.

hob-gob of folks. And sometimes it's

People who attempted to end their lives, no matter how amateurishly they might do so at first, often got better at it, with the result that on the third, fourth or sixth try, they ended up on a slab with a coroner poking around their remains.

And he and millions of others had just fought a world war to ensure that neither anarchy nor fascism nor anything else would replace the reasonable screwing over of people without money by those who possessed damn near all of it.

Humans were imperfect beings operating in a world over which they had diminishing control.

You know what happened to her predecessors? Of course. It's sort of like the Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers. Bad things happen to them. Defense Against the Dark Arts? You know, in Harry Potter .

I hate the world," said Lancaster, looking miserable. "I don't hate the world," said Decker. "I only hate some of the people who unfortunately live in it.

Facing fear is better than running from it, he said. What if it's fear you can't beat? Then it might be better to be dead, he answered.

The problem is . . . I love you, Will Robie. More than I've loved anyone. And that's why you'll never be able to help me through this.

john was smart, but he was also a young male with a usually empty belly. sometimes it was simple as that

David Baldacci

crushed by the

I had to so something. Anything that would make me feel like I was accomplishing something. To make me feel that I was not a failure.

Mankind has gotten so very sick. Sometimes I'm glad that I'm very near the end of my days on earth.

that one could never be the same afterward. It pushed bone, muscle, ligaments, and brains to places they were never intended to go. It was no wonder that so many men who had played the game were now suffering the long-term debilitating effects of entertaining millions and making large sums of money for doing so.