Quotes About Struggle

In his years as a street cop, homicide detective, and police chief, Jesse thought he had learned his lesson about hope. He knew better than most just how little purchase hope ever really has. -Jesse Stone

The problem with life was that even if you didn't go looking for trouble, trouble sometimes came looking for you.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

One of the most puzzling aspects of love is its lack of justice. It's unfair. Love can elude people who seem to deserve it while it's heaped on those who appear to ignore it, run from it, or slough it off as too restrictive.

Most folks with a terrific sense of humor know that loneliness, anxiety, depression and comedy share a basement apartment in a sketchy neighborhood.

What would God think of her, sitting in this chapel, pretending to be holy? He knew the truth. He knew she was no friend of His.

He couldn't deny the hole he was in, but could the uppity young miss who kept his head spinning be the answer he was looking for?

Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.

We all came to Seattle in hopes of building better lives. No one said we wouldn't have to struggle first.

True strength of will is calm; in calmness it is persevering so that it does not become discouraged by momentary lack of success or by any wounds received. No one is conquered until he has given up the struggle. And he who works for the Lord puts his confidence in God and not in himself.982

Frustration is the seedbed of creativity,invention and ultimately progress.

Opposition comes to those who have taken a position.

Reginald Hill

Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.

These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate.

All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There is always some hope, especially for cowards. I was one of them, one of those cowardly or hopeful young men who still thought the government had something to offer.

Being a fugitive living in the woods at the time, I had to write before it got dark. Now darkness was approaching again, only more insidiously.

All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.

En los sistemas políticos siniestros, se vuelven siniestras también muchas de las personas que lo padecen; no son muchos los que pueden escapar a esa maldad delirante y envolvente de la cual, si uno se excluye, perece.

Cuba will be free. I already am.

Kafka experienced it at the movies and in Yitzhak Löwy's burlesque theater. And yet he made slapstick the medium of a chilling message: We fidget not because we are alive but because we get crushed the moment we stop.

History is a struggle between the "old" right that intended to be just and the "new" that promises to be.

After every few steps, we huddle over our ice axes mouths agape, struggling for sufficient breath to keep our muscles going.... at a height of 8800 metres, we can no longer keep on our feet while we rest. We crumple to our knees, clutching our axes.... Every ten or fifteen steps we collapse into the snow to rest, then crawl on again.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.