Quotes About Struggle

It's easy to make a buck; it's tough to make a difference."4

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

A lament is an act of worship, a faith statement of trust, in the face of difficulty. It's a wonderfully honest way to acknowledge our trouble to God as we also acknowledge our hope is in him.

One of the enemy's sneaky attacks against the joy of our salvation is to put us in the spiral of self-condemnation.

The enemy knows God has a purpose and plan for your life. The enemy wants you to give up.

When you get the end of your rope, tie a knot & hold on!

Stabbings, shooting, rapes, homicides -- the denizens of places like the Elk brought those crimes along with them the way ordinary travelers carried luggage.

Battaglia gagged her. Told her to take the high road. Fuck the high road, I said. It's usually a dead end. --Mike Chapman to Lee, Crime Scene Photographer.

Haig said, "Victory will belong to the side which holds out the longest." What a pathetic admission!

And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which could take your boy's eye out or give him brain damage if god forbids he took off his helmet one of those dusty stones hit him in the head

doesn't mean to say we are always going to be crazy either. Simply that we are back on that line, jostling for position with everyone else who claims to be normal.

The Ledbetter episode came and went quickly. It is entirely predictable that other discrete disputes over the intent of Congress and the meaning of federal statutes will similarly come and go in the future. But there exists a more profound constitutionally-based struggle between the Court and Congress over the boundaries of congressional lawmaking authority, with origins deep in the country's history.

Two periods sixty years apart provide bookends to an account of deep conflict between the political branches and the Supreme Court in the modern era. The first was the struggle over the New Deal.

The struggle between the Court and the president, dramatically present in cases growing out of the Bush administration's response

Writing as proven to be hard work, often painful. I can honestly say I would rather be fishing.

She was an anchor but at least now she knew it had an end, a stopping place. It hit bottom. She could fall no deeper.

When men decide in their secretly dark or hungry hearts to work their own will, there is little that can stop them. They have inner weather, sometimes unpredictable.

We are those who came from the ones who survived, buried in that place after walking the death trail from Mississippi. Missa Sipokna. We walked into this lost foreign place having no homes, no body of peace just the papers with signatures of those who made promises not held.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

The poet W. B. Yeats wrote the famous line: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." I would suggest that the problem is not that the center cannot hold, but that humans are unaware of the center, unaware of their innermost essence, which is the spiritual dimension of life.

Notre planète étant, selon la définition de Stevenson, une île tournoyante chargée de vie rapace, plus ruisselante de sang qu'un navire au lendemain d'une mutinerie, Hanokh Levin sonde les pulsions mortifères, descend dans le sous-sol humain où grouille un monde de lâcheté et de bassesse, tire des choses vues un constat sur le non-sens de nos existences, engluées dans de risibles ambitions. (p. 117)

It is struggle that strengthens and makes us aware, that tempers the spirit and opens the mind's eye.

I had the misfortune of meeting Chuck Traynor. He started out as a nice person and then did a complete 180 and beat me up from that day forward, physically, mentally, and psychologically. The psychological damage will never go away

She did things to keep her man happy; I did things to keep my man from killing me.