Quotes About Struggle

Sometimes," she said, wiping her eyes, "sometimes I wish I could stop being Toitovna. I get so tired of it, of everything that I've done." Michel sat beside her. "We're locked in our selves to the end. This is the price one pays for thought. But which would you rather be—convict, or idiot?

Decisions are hard. Everyone has the halting problem.

But a little contemplation of history will reveal that this feeling too will not last for long. Unless of course the feeling of things falling apart is itself massively entrenched, to the point of being the eternal or eternally recurrent individual human's reaction to history. Which may just mean the reinscription of the biological onto the historical, for we are all definitely always falling apart, and not massively entrenched in anything at all.

It's not as if she needs the torch anymore, the welcome beacon to immigrants having been long since snuffed out. Probably

And it came to her that it was precisely in the moments of greatest need when people could do the least for each other.

Frank's French was worse than no French at all, like listening to someone attack the language with a hatchet.

the way like-minded people working to solve the same problem will engage in continuous civil war with each other over methods, thus destroying their chances of success.

Praxis locals spoke French to him, and he could barely understand them. He had to listen hard, hoping his native tongue would come back to him, that the franglaisation and frarabisation he had heard about had not changed things too much; it was shocking to fumble in his native tongue, shocking too that the French Academy had not done its job and kept the language frozen in the seventeenth century like it was supposed to.

On her the plants seemed not to have had the effect they had had on him. She seemed truly to abominate them, these little emblems of her body, as if viriditas were no more than a cancer that the rock must suffer.

The thirties were zombie years. Civilization had been killed but it kept walking the Earth, staggering toward some fate even worse than death.

the word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water.

At this point justice and revenge are the same thing! Justice for people would be revenge on the oligarchs.

However, recall that every human lives under pressure. Every human feels various kinds of stress. Then things happen." Badim

It's easier to get into a hole than get out of it (Arab proverb).

When you have a strong conservative streak in your society," Zeyk would say, "which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that's when you get the worst kinds of civil wars.

The Americans lost all the battles but won the war. Because when they lost they were still here. It was their home. They would go off and regroup, and the British would follow them and beat on them again somewhere else. There were a couple American victories along the way, but mostly not. Mostly the British won, but even so they eventually wore down, and in the end the Americans surrounded them and kicked them out. The Brits were going to run out of food, so they left.

History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously its not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little more attention to certain details, like for instance your planet.

Wherever there's a commons there's enclosure. And enclosure always wins.

hope to do some good, no matter how fucked up you are.

The one percent get nasty when their assets are threatened.

causing a refugee crisis rated at ten thousand katrinas. One

Worse, there had been a few times when Serena had traveled to out-of-town speaking engagements, and she hadn't been able to

If she could help it, she would totally forget about her penniless, project-housing upbringing. She would forget about the fact that she and her younger sister, Diane, had sometimes gone to bed starving…as well as about being forced to wear secondhand clothing, all of

I could run, too, but my feet hurt. It's tough being a fashion vixen.