Quotes About Struggle

I gave up pouring my heart out to his personal assistant a long time ago. Talking to the man himself is damn near impossible. Always on a business trip or in a meeting. No way he'd make time for his daughter.

Regnet piskade honom i nacken, rann in under rocken och blöte ner hans skjorta som klistrade sig mot ryggen. Till och med uniformen hade förlorat sin värdighet.

She swore her feelings for me were sincere, even though deep down she does love another man, a prisoner of the regime she's struggling against. You probably think I should have put her in her place, but let me tell you, she was magnificent.

Era necesario confrontar sus sueño con la realidad aún a riesgo de verlos fracasar?

People become violent because they want something.

It's over, I won." That's fine and dandy, but most times it isn't true. It isn't the first round that counts; it's the total at the end that decides the winner.

I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed. I

I know you've probably heard that in show business it can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed.

If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.

We're all carrying around some shit. When you hear the things people have gone through and realize you've gone through the same, it provides an amazing amount of relief. It give us hope. And I think that's what we're supposed to get from each other. The hope that, maybe, just maybe, we're going to be okay. Maybe.

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

it can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

Such figures suggest that the property-owning classes had indeed been hit hard by repeated barbarian incursions.

there misery and calamity have begun'.

Britains [sic], up to now afflicted by various disasters and vicissitudes, were widely reduced to the rule of the Saxons.

referring to conflicts between the various rulers who had emerged in western Britain since the break with Rome.

Coenwulf dealt briskly with these challenges to his rule.

those taken captive.

decided he would rather not relinquish his position, and was plotting to prevent his father's return

for those at the bottom of the ladder,

With both Cynewulf and Cyneheard dead, and many of their men with them,

The conquest of the Isle of Wight,