Quotes About Struggle

With insulin, the stone was rolled away, and diabetes became a matter of the quality of life, not the speed of death.

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

For Jabotinsky, the confrontation between Jews and Arabs was rooted in the fact that both sides shared historical rights to the same land. This was not a struggle between right and wrong, but between right and right.

The second decade of the twenty-first century—just 150 years after Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and Karl-Maria Kurtbeny, early LGBT rights theorists, ignited the idea of same-sex freedom in 1868—we find ourselves in a heady, global maelstrom of unimaginable liberation and continued stark oppression.

we had bypassed Romeo and Juliet and gone straight to Macbeth.

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

Unfortunately, his pants had not survived the fall. They hung from the sharp teeth of the barbed-wire fence, leaving the sheriff in just a pair of droopy long johns. Defeated

Wendell turned to the chalkboard and wrote I AM A WORTHLESS FAT-BODY.

As far as Sabrina could tell, the only crop this town grew was mud.

I was tired of losing things. No, not losing, having things taken from me. I couldn't handle any more of the universe's thievery. — Lyric

Granny, we're not going to make it!" Sabrina shouted, battling the roaring engine to be heard. "I love pancakes, too," the old woman shouted back. I hate this car, Sabrina thought to herself.

Even the simplest of God's animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The difference is, of course, that the wars of the chickens won't ever break the world.

fought, it was usually more trouble than it was

And in that full day, while Jed slept and woke and worked and loved, the forces in the world around him rushed headlong toward an inevitable, and violent, climax.

The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears, and when he is locked down by his own slavish desires for a comfortable life.

It was like he was being pulled in a single direction, but by two diametrically opposed forces—if such a thing could be possible.

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy,"Easy" doesn't enter into grown-up life.

They'd lived their lives on tightropes, never knowing where the next paycheck was coming from or if one was coming at all, their personal lives a mishmash of backstage affairs and dressing room brawls endured for the brief heady adrenaline rush brought by the orchestra's overture and glare of white lights.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster," as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote. "And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Walter

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.