Quotes About Struggle

I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.

Life is one game where people don't play fair.

the many things that puzzled me was, if there were other Black people as proud and fierce-looking as Effie and could control a situation as well as she could, why was the Black race in such a mess? I didn't even think that Effie could answer that question

We ended up in America by default, so it'll never really be our home.

She waved me to a plaid couch in the middle of the living room floor. I eased down and looked around the sorry place. The odor of stale turnip greens was so thick, it seemed like it was seeping through the walls. Every piece of furniture looked like it belonged in the city dump, especially a chair with no legs facing the couch...If Betty Jean hadn't been so cheerful, I would have felt sorry for her.

Like almost every other colored person, I couldn't tell the difference because we'd been going through a "depression" all our lives.

I convinced myself that having to drive a

It's clearly easier to get the snake out of the sack than it is to shove it back.

So maybe my own life is not so drastic and dreadful...maybe I am just like all those other girls who have come before me with their oily T-zones and random terrible days and bittersweet triumphs, the world billowing out behind them.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

The weaklings were winnowed out by these great storms, and the chastened souls of those who survived knew little of pleasure.

This elemental struggle was to resolve itself into one between Aryan and non-Aryan—the Slav and the Finn; and this again into one between the various members of the Slavonic family; then a life-and-death struggle with Asiatic barbarism in its worst form (the Mongol), with Tatar and Turk always remaining as disturbing factors.

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

The world had broken; the pieces lay like shattered gold, spoil for the strongest.

temptation, that in itself it is nothing but an opportunity for choice; so it is rather defeatist to feel very guilty about it, as though one were half ready to commit the sin.

En él creció una tensión que se fue transformando en la rabiosa aflicción rebelde del hombre-niño que busca la fuerza de un hombre en el ruido y la furia.

Nunca he entendido cómo llegaste tan lejos. ?Drogas. Drogado de pies a cabeza.

Máquina» es un término periodístico. Los términos inexactos como ese forman parte de la psicosis de la guerra. Las personas no son máquinas, aunque quieran serlo. Hay que empezar en alguna parte. ?Pero mientras tanto muchas personas inocentes van a sufrir. ?Lo sé, y eso es precisamente el quid de la cuestión. Podría decirse, y es cierto, que la guerra es como un bumerang y resulta imposible garantizar la seguridad de nadie a la larga.

Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. Decca: sisters are life's cruel adversity