Quotes About Struggle

Quizá el mejor resumen de lo que la chinaca significó en aquellos años terribles para la república de 1864 y 1865 esté en la frase de Eduardo Ruiz que caracteriza a una fuerza inmune a la derrota: "México perdiendo gana, si no es hoy será mañana".

Contra-revolucionário é aquele que luta contra a revolução, mas também é contra-revolucionária a pessoa que utiliza sua influência para conseguir uma casa, depois para conseguir dois carros, depois viola o racionamento e, por fim, tem tudo o que o povo não tem.

O imperialismo sabe ou não sabe o que a União Soviética é capaz de fazer para nos defender? (...) Se errarem, destruirão o imperialismo até suas raízes, mas de nós também sobrará muito pouco; por isso temos que lutar pela paz com convicção.

país dominado por las deudas, el analfabetismo, el clero, los agiotistas y los militares.

La de la Revolución Mexicana es una historia en la que mucho se mata y mucho se muere, en la que la vida humana parece valer muy poco y la supervivencia es tan accidental y casual como la muerte. Avitia rescata las frases en un corrido terrible: 'Como saben que en México se mata y que a diario se muere por acá'.

Come se l'unica cosa che ognuno di noi ha imparato, è che in questa immensità le tenacia dei buoni resta rannicchiata, in agguato.

Los agraviados y sus herederos seguimos pensando que Iturbide no era de los nuestros. Y que mejor vaya y chingue a su madre.

We are a gutted generation, born in the depression and obsessed with prosperity.

human life doesn't have truth. We're born screaming in doubt, and we die suffocating in doubt, and human life consists of continually convincing ourselves we're alive. One of the ways we know we're alive is we love each other...

I'm gonna see an old lady with white hair, like the old ladies inna park, little bundles inna black shawl, waiting for the coffin. I'm fifty-six years old. What am I to do with myself? I have strength in my hands. I wanna cook. I wanna clean. I wanna make dinner for my children. I wanna be of use to somebody. Am I an old dog to lie in fronta the fire till my eyes close? These are terrible years, Theresa! Terrible years!

THE MOTHER Hobby! What can she do? She cooks and she cleans. You gotta have a house to clean. You gotta have children to cook for. These are the terrible years for a woman, the terrible years. THE GIRL You mustn't feel too harshly against her daughter-in-law. She also wants to have a house to clean and a family to cook for. (THE MOTHER darts a quick, sharp look at THE GIRL-then looks back

VIRGINIA (Practically on the verge of tears) I just can't stand it no more! Every minute of the day! Do this! Do that! I don't have ten minutes alone with my husband! We can't even have a fight! We don't have no privacy! Everybody's miserable in our house! THOMAS All right, Ginnie, don't get so excited. THE MOTHER She's right. She's right.

ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting here like unconquerable savages, men missing their dogs and talking pointlessly unless talk to the dead. let's sharpen something.

At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.

Maybe that old adage about not being able to have a good apartment, a good relationship, and a good job at the same time is true.

She had sculpted the mist, the way those who have no choice do. She had willed a life for the two of us in a new land.

So this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause. - Padme Amidala - Tory MPs have voted down a bid to impose a windfall tax on oil and gas giants that could save families £600. Despite Brits facing a cost of living crisis, Conservatives rejected a Labour amendment to the Queen's Speech backing a one-off levy on North Sea firms to help struggling Brits. MPs rejected the move by 310 votes to 248, and not one Tory MP backed it.

The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain

The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrifice, and with extreme effort.

Life is a gift. The Lord never promised any of us permanent happiness on earth. But—and here's the saving grace—he will give us the strength we need to keep on going if we ask him.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

To feel at home in this desperate world of ours is the surest sign that one has failed to recognize it.

Remember this remember this remember this the next time you think it's over, because some man, or some hope, or some life takes away instead of gives. Remember this and get on an airplane, a small one if possible, because it always works.

Boone was a hunter of the everything-has-to-be-hard-and-painful-to-be-good variety, and there was nothing he liked better than a six- or seven-hour belly crawl through the soggy green tundra.