Quotes About Struggle

David Baldacci

Wars don't change how people are, Archer. They just kill a bunch 'a folks and when it's over, people go back to being how they always were. Most good, some not so good.

And she said no more as they drove along right into the gathering storm that might as well have been inside the car as well as outside it.

Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work

eight-story building. It looked like a place where young people just starting out or older people downsizing might live mixed in with a healthy dose of middle-aged people who had simply never fully realized their goals in life.

David Baldacci

Kennedy's guy had never been the same. Quit the Service, divorced, finished his human existence in obscurity in some rat's hole in Mississippi

He had walked away, head down, feet shuffling, looking very much like a young man who had lost everything of value in his life.

Stone threw some weeds into a garbage pail and then spent some time shoring up an old tombstone that marked the resting place of a prominent African American preacher who'd lost his life in the fight for freedom. Odd, thought Stone, that one had to fight for freedom in the freest land on earth.

belt. "But it didn't happen.

He had started to forget what it was like to hit one out of the park. After Sullivan

But the more intelligence you had beforehand, the better the eventual fight would go.

A squatter for life is inhabiting my mind. And he happens to be me.

The white men had basically crapped all over the only race that could call itself indigenous in America.

Bay to the west continued to pound the little spit of land. She had departed from Robie feeling both hopeful and lost, such an unsettling feeling that she was unsure from which end to work through it. If there was even a way to do so. For most of her

Decker had worked his way onto the Cleveland Browns by busting his ass on the practice field, sacrificing his body in idiotic ways that had come back to haunt him in

Trying to recapture his youth. He should have known that nature bowed to no one, regardless of their monetary worth.

engine, picked up the pages, ripped off the rubber band, and

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

You're going down this time, Isabel Kabra. - Dan

felt her legs begin to give way.

For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists.... The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those who would leave it be.... The only sensible way forward lies in a melding of the two philosophies. If nature has grown artificial, then restoring wilderness requires human intervention. We must manage nature in order to leave it alone.

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming