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Struggle Quotes
"We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go."
74
"The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself."
37
"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."
13
"Invisible threads are the strongest ties."
13
"I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky."
11
"We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities."
11
"The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world-a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life."
11
"I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care."
10
"As beauty lies in eyes of beholder, struggling lies in reaching further."
9
"It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more."
9
"Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat."
9
"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish."
9
"To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio."
8
"The magic was boiling her blood. The darkness-it would be a relief compared to the hell smoldering in her veins. The Valg prince advanced, and part of her was screaming-screaming at herself to get up, to keep fighting, to rage and roar against this horrible end. But moving her limbs, even breathing, had become a monumental effort.She was so tired."
8
"You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can."
8
"A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at."
8
"I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve."
8
"Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it."
7
"What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was that his lip was bleeding where they had hit him and he couldn't wipe the little trickle of blood away although it tickled him."
7
"You see, it is so hard for these creatures to persevere. The routine of adversity, the gradual decay of youthful loves and youthful hopes, the quiet despair (hardly felt as pain) of ever overcoming the chronic temptations with which we have again and again defeated them, the drabness which we create in their lives and the inarticulate resentment with which we teach them to respond to it--all this provides admirable opportunities of wearing out a soul by attrition."
7
"He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there."'How about my present?' she demanded, half wheedling, half menacing."Never mind that now. To work! Come here. Not a bad mouth. Come here. Come closer. Ah!"No. No use. Impossible. The will but not the way. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Try again. No. The booze, it must be. See Macbeth. One last try. No, no use. Not this evening, I'm afraid."All right, Dora, don't you worry. You'll get your two quid all right. We aren't paying by results."He made a clumsy gesture. 'Here, give us that bottle. That bottle off the dressing-table.'"Dora brought it. Ah, that's better. That at least doesn't fail."
6
"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."
6
"It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle."
6
"As the shadows assumeshapesI fight the slowretreatnowmy once-promisedwindlingdwindlingnowlighting new cigarettespouring moredrinksit has been a beautifulfightstillis."
6
"I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept."
5
"He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the red cassock. All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601."
5
"The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose."
5
"The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct."
5
"We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before."
5
"The energy it took to exit mother's womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!"
5
"He who hates easiness in life will always find a though mountain to climb!"
5
"One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much."
5
"No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from the horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home."
5
"I wander this path,So lost and yet so free.I have fallen so many times.My heart knows what I want,And yet, something holds me back,A demon that lusts over pointless endeavours.This path is a battlefield.One man will fall,One man will stand,A cycle till the end of my time.My heart's main fear that it will lose,And so, I lose and I lose.My heart, so insecure,My demon, oh, so confident.Stop."
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