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Quotes About Struggle

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I have been in the red all my life.
~ Woody Guthrie
Do Re Mi California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi
~ Woody Guthrie
All of this talking about what's up in the sky, or down in hell, for that matter, isn't half as important as what's right here, right now, right in front of your eyes. Things are tough. Folks broke. Kids hungry. Sick. Everything. And people has got to have more faith in one another, believe in each other. There's a spirit of some kind we've all got. That's got to draw us all together.
~ Woody Guthrie
The weeds turned into a jungle where spiders wolfed the ladybugs and wasps dive-bombed the spiders. A world where the new babies of one came from the dead bodies of others.
~ Woody Guthrie
Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!
~ Wu Cheng'en
Monkey now produced his staff and the two of them did their best to kill each other, like the affectionate in-laws they were.
~ Wu Cheng'en
Pasa uno tanto tiempo junto la miedo que le agarra confianza
~ Xavier Velasco
La tristeza y la risa terminan entendiéndose como jarabe y tos. Ninguno de los dos es lo bastante fuerte para vencer al otro y al final se resignan a convivir.
~ Xavier Velasco
La locura es aquella enfermedad que sólo nos amenaza cuando ya sus uñas se han alojado en las entrañas, de modo que pelear contra ella es también despedazarnos el vientre, oprimirnos los pulmones, perder el miedo a la muerte como se pierden la inocencia y el amor.
~ Xavier Velasco
Qué difícil vivir enamorado y no dejar de ser un pinche caliente.
~ Xavier Velasco
Desde cuándo los sentimientos meramente irracionales precisan de razones para joderle a uno la existencia?
~ Xavier Velasco
La adversidad es una carambola imposible. Una chuza robada por el diablo. Un triste logaritmo inoperante. Pienso que la conozco, y ella a mí, pero seguro estoy exagerando. Dudo que sea digno de que La Adversidad me vea de frente y pronuncie mi nombre.
~ Xavier Velasco
Sin el amor, soy otra vez aquel inadaptado al que le da lo mismo que le llamen rufián, desvergonzado, vándalo, vago, bueno para nada.
~ Xavier Velasco
tengo un diablo integrado que empieza a pensar rápido cuando ve que se agotan los billetes.
~ Xavier Velasco
Por más que quieras resistirte a él, que te niegues a oír cuando dice tu nombre, que saques tus principios y tus convicciones, que le azotes la puerta en media cara, el dinero siempre va a hallar algún callejoncito para seducirte.
~ Xavier Velasco
al pobre y al caliente los delata la prisa.
~ Xavier Velasco
Me daba miedo amar y no sabía ser amada, si quieres que lo ponga en plan de melodrama. No sé por qué le tengo tanta tirria a la palabra amor.
~ Xavier Velasco
Giving too many privileges to senior personnel can only damage morale. The struggle between nobles and commoners will always exist at some level, but when mutual suspicions are neutralized by working together closely toward common goals, this tension can be energizing rather than debilitating. There
~ Xenophon
ANABASIS By Xenophon Translation by H. G. Dakyns
~ Xenophon
Let me teach you a new way of seeing yourselves in the great scheme of things. We should no longer feel inferior to the men who went before us. Their lives were one long struggle to perform the same deeds that we hold in honor now. Yet, for all their worth, they made few gains for the nation or for themselves. In fact, their enemies seemed to prosper as much as they did. Our forefathers may have displayed wonderful courage, but they failed to reap great rewards." Placing
~ Xenophon
Die Mauer in meinem Gedächtnis besteht weiter aus den bewaffneten Männern, die bereit waren, nach einer Anweisung auf Menschen zu schießen. Auf unserem wasserblauen Planeten werden immer wieder neue Mauern gebaut. Wo eine Mauer steht, ist das Leben auf beiden Seiten bedroht.
~ Y?ko Tawada
Within my roasting brain cells, the scaps of thought refused to cohere.
~ Y?ko Tawada
Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
~ Yann Martel
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
~ Yann Martel