Quotes About Struggle

Na guerra, os pobres são mortos. Na paz, os pobres morrem.

Matar o patrão? Mais difícil é matar o escravo dentro de nós.

Agora, eu via o meu país como uma dessas baleias que vêm agonizar na praia. A morte nem sucedera e já as facas lhe roubavam pedaços, cada um tentando o mais para si

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one had to leave it.

I don't think of myself as a writer. I'm troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I have dead friends, friends in prison, friends who are prostitutes, on drugs, drunk, married to shitty men. I write because I need to write, to make sense of life. Honesty is everything to me.

Passing a healthcare replacement bill is a lot like trying to put socks on a rooster

Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker

If the quest was supposed to be easy, they would not have given it to someone who is supposed to be a hero.

I thought about all the people who'd had to do this through history. The millions taking flight from disasters, fleeing tyrannical despots, making exodus from pogroms, escaping warring soldiers and pouring out of bombed cities. What had kept them going was the promise of safe haven, whether in some sprawling refugee camp or under the protection of a friendly army. We didn't have that

For myself I couldn't care less, but I have a lover. Not a partner, Susannah, or a friend or a significant euphemism, but the love of my life. And he believes. And I've watched him tie himself in knots, as he struggles to find a place for himself in texts that were written thousands of years ago, with the deliberate aim of excluding him.

Los Angeles wasn't a sun-splashed utopia anymore—it was an alienated, smog-choked sprawl rife with racial and class tensions, recession, and stifling boredom.

The loser," as TAD guitarist Kurt Danielson explained to the Rocket, "is the existential hero of the Nineties.

constant friction between what you see, and what you want to achieve and things that you know are right. That rub is what creates the pain and the emotion and then there's the hope that maybe you can overcome it, make it happen. It's the same politically and personally—to me it's all one issue because the same problems keep coming up over and over again—lack of commitment, lack of caring.

Wars in history invariably become wars of history.

it could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, lovin you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars, tell me who i have to be, to get some reciprocity..

All the while, an intensely personal real-time documentary was being shot, with the help of seventy-five CBS cameras, about a man, private by nature but famous by deed, trying to reclaim a lost life while starting a new one, and doing so with millions of people watching.

by insisting on repatriation, the Rastafarian is liable to jump from the frying pan into the fire.

After a year in America, Amiri changed his mind and decided to go back to Iran. He supposedly couldn't cope with the stress of his new life.

As long as people use violence to combat violence, we will always have violence.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.