Quotes About Struggle

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'

this broken, anxious world is oozing with God.

I didn't come all this way not to let some lunatic old man tie me to a chair and feed me mind-melting poisons. "I

I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

I had basically the same stigma that Bo Derek did -- being created by a Svengali -- which took me a long time to overcome.

I've been working for a long time now. When I was 21 I stopped and got married. I tried for a while to be the perfect wife, society this, society that, but it wasn't working, so after about a year I went back to work.

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

Prin?i în b?taia mitralierelor, c?deau ai no?tri ca spicele sub secer?toare. [...] Noi n-am avut arme. Ne-au trimis la r?zboi cu mâinile goale - pu?ti vechi, gloan?e pu?ine, dezbr?ca?i... Ca pe vite la t?iere...

Descul?ii strig?: p?mînt, p?mînt, p?mînt!... P?mînt este ?i, totu?i, p?mînt nu este. Sau, nu e al cui îl strope?te cu sudoarea.

Sînt fl?mînzi de p?mînt descul?ii... ?ip? foamea în ei... Nimeni nu le aude ?ip?tul, ori, cine-l aude, îndeas? c?ciula pe urechi ?i se face c? nu-l aude — c?ciula de astrahan...

Muncim ?i r?mînem t?cu?i. T?cu?i. T?cu?i ca p?mîntul. Dar ?i p?mîntul uneori muge?te lung ?i se cutremur? din temelii. ?i p?mîntul se r?zvr?te?te uneori.

The unavoidable implication is that the struggle for emancipation is a never-ending one—it always fails; it always falls short of its objective. Reaching a destination inevitably brings with it killjoys and spoilers, making for new struggles. But this should come as no surprise since universality, after all, is about the very absence of meaning—impossible to reach, possess, or fully realize. Struggle, struggle again, struggle better.

A negative universal politics, after all, aims at facing and working through our deadlocks, which always already confront us, even after "success." There is no triumph after victory, only more work, more struggle, more failure. "Success"—if at all—is only temporary, and idealism is always flawed and fleeting. Hence the abiding need to engage in politics.

A universal politics thus cannot and must not denigrate sites of resistance that do not align immediately with the workers' struggle. Quite the contrary, it takes as axiomatic the shift from one revolutionary agent to "proletarian positions": "an explosive combination of different agents" is the path for a "new emancipatory politic." The challenge is how to unify these proletarian positions around a common struggle.

A pessimistic orientation does not seek accommodations with the system.

No one who hasn't taken a vigil for the night and had it out with God can get to the place where their love and faith become real. We

Justice is not natural among people, but the struggle for justice is the most noble act in society. Because justice may not be possible, but as it's the way toward the desired society for each one to live in, that's why its struggle is noble and regard as the highest act.

Struggle of power is natural in human because with power their individuality prevails over others."

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

Like most addictions, sex is used to take away pain or to temporarily ignore it. If you are not in control of your life, but your life is controlled by your sexual urges, then you need to seek help.

minutes?" Jason was on the edge, and I was falling over the cliff with him. I wasn't sure I could handle everything in one day after all. I would've preferred another day of everyone kicking my ass and getting hit by

But what can women do in times of war? They help, they cheer, they inspire, and if their cause is lost they must accept death or worse. Few women have the courage for self-destruction. "To the victor belong the spoils," and women have ever been the spoils of war.

I knew you"d never be American enough to help me reconstruct my life.