Quotes About Struggle

I am an historian of warfare; I often describe my job as similar to that of an oncologist. I study that which kills and hope that one day humanity will find a cure.

Ambivalence is simultaneously wanting and not wanting something, or wanting both of two incompatible things. It has been human nature since the dawn of time.

One Soviet general, looking at a map of the territory Russia had acquired on the Karelian Isthmus, is said to have remarked: "We have won just about enough ground to bury our dead

So many small nations had been bullied into humiliating surrender, the dictators had won so many cheap victories, that idealism had been left starving....

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

I think there is no decent American living who could have worked in our Berlin Immigration section without acquiring a deep hatred for the government which drove these people like cattle from unfriendly consulate to unfriendly consulate, from blocked border to blocked border. Nothing was too petty for the mighty German government so long as it could do some harm to a harried Jew.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

War always changes. Our enemies learn and adapt, and we must do the same or lose. But today, war is changing faster and on a larger scale than at any time in the last 350 years. Not only are we facing rapid change in how war is fought, we are facing radical changes in who fights and what they are fighting for. All over the world, state militaries find themselves fighting non-state opponents.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Everybody's behind the eight-ball!

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?

Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

Hanging and Riving goes by destiny.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.