Quotes About Struggle

To destroy the institution is not to abolish motherhood. It is to release the creation and sustenance of life into the same realm of decision, struggle, surprise, imagination, and conscious intelligence, as any other difficult, but freely chosen work.

My verse works.' In two senses: as participant in political struggle, and at the personal, visceral level where it's received and its witness acknowledged. These are two responses to the question of poetry and commitment, which I take as complementary, not in opposition.

You were a woman walked on a leash. And they dropped you in the end.

I experienced my depressions, bursts of anger, sense of entrapment, as burdens my husband was forced to bear because he loved me.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

I have never been a good dancer but am very passionate about it.

I'm passionate about the game. Anytime you work as hard and a play doesn't go the way you wanted, you get frustrated.

I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too.

It is imperative that Afghanistan cricket does well. You cannot imagine how passionate Afghanistan's fans are and how they live and die by every result.

I'm depressed when I don't get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.

After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

I'm a guy who's passionate about singing, but I can't sing for crap.

I think that football has always had a passionate, aggressive side, with players giving their all. People have to get used to this.

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

I never think past any man, because every guy has two hands and every dude wants to hurt you.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

My past is a bit checkered.

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.