Quotes About Struggle

As long as there are armies, there will be a war. I don't care about symbols.

No cause that was ever worthy was without its turmoil, its trials, its hopelessness. We are not defeated yet.

We had a tough fight here, but dammit, we're getting the job done. The First and the Twenty-ninth took heavy casualties all day yesterday, and they're still taking them now.

A condition of war' exists.

it out of his throat, wiped at the grime

All right. They're on our left. They're on our right. They're in front of us, they're behind us. They can't get away this time." —COLONEL LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER

Vegetables were almost nonexistent, and what passed for meat was either rancid or pure fat. The men were surviving on crackers and moldy flour. Lee was beginning to understand what this meant to the fighting strength of the army.

He slapped one hand against the breech of the Thompson, slapped again, pulsing frustration, and said aloud, "Dammit!

May God have mercy on us all.

Too far! Dammit, I need a rifle! But his own men were answering, the M-1s close beside him opening up. "I got one! I got one!" Marley's

How long can a war go on? It seems like this war has been going on forever without end.

If you go by the records that never seem to make it into textbooks, Asians have been in America since Filipino slaves jumped ship from Spanish galleons in Louisiana in the 1760s, where they built secret villages in the swamplands, hid from their kidnappers, fished to survive, and eventually, were recruited to defend a young America from a new British invasion in 1812.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

The fate of another man decided by a war they didnt declar

The history of domestic terrorism is long. The Haymarket bombing occurred in Chicago in 1886.

The pain, you know. It's one hell of a way to die.

Islands—of times when you're content, you don't think about the loss. Now it's like your world's underwater. All of it. But the water goes down and the islands come up. The water'll be there always but you'll find dry land

God don't give out certain.

Depression depleted your energy; the main cause of suicide was a deadly fusion of hopelessness, anxiety and panic.

about trying to escape the past. It's like a dog on a tether. No matter how much he runs, he just can't get away.

nemesis is American citizens who've gone overseas

Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories (1997)

We're defined and enlivened by what opposes us. And when the Watchmaker died, Lincoln Rhyme died a bit too.

Sometimes you just find yourself standing in need to do something. No matter it seems hopeless.