Quotes About Struggle

I believe in God and a higher power. I'm still not the religious type per se because religion tore my family apart. I'm still a little scared and skeptical being one with any faith.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.

Peace, Land, and Bread! All power to the Soviet!

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

I struggled more with my identity. Let's be honest - early on in my first records, I didn't have the power to tell David Foster or other producers what to do.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

The oars game me power but also taught me humility.

As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.

The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

The strong were always eating the weak.

But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.