Quotes About Struggle

Sometimes, with portrayals of domestic violence, the women involved are just victims with no personality, just completely trodden-down. But people continue to live their normal lives: they go out; they continue to have arguments with their partners, even if there is always the fear of where that might end up.

Low pay is a serious problem, and its victims need a genuine solution.

Since 1979, the majority of victims of the Iranian regime have been the Iranian people themselves.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992.

In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for the presidency since before they could vote, starting with Victoria Woodhull in 1872 and Belva Lockwood in 1884.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

There are no moral victories.

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.

I'm not gonna get it all right, but I take my victories, as small as they are.

I think it's imperative of me to advance that theory that you can win your small victories against the dark.

As time goes on, at both DC and Marvel, characters notch up so many victories that we often start to think of them as infallible, which is kind of death for adventure fiction.

Of course I would love to battle for victories and be up the front but it's always about where can you be, what are your alternatives.

I've worked on enough campaigns to know that the most aggrieved candidate rarely emerges victorious.

People let me into their lives, whether it's a tragic or victorious circumstance.

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.