My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.
Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.
The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.
I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
As a fast bowler if you’re not going to bowl well on a Perth wicket you’re going to struggle in Australia.
So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.
We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.
It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don’t want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.
Some of us are turtles; we crawl and struggle along, and we haven’t maybe figured it out by the time we’re 30. But the turtles have to keep on walking.
I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
I know that it’s a big struggle with a lot of women to dress up – especially now women have been working – because it can be uncomfortable. So it was important to me with my role to make clothes that are slightly more dressed up but easy to wear.
The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
I still struggle with my low notes. It’s just always been something for me: I’m not a low singer. I have a really high voice.
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant – conflict and war.
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.
It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.
I don’t find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don’t crave rich food.
My fiction is almost always inspired by a character’s need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Often, when you’ve reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it’s hard to remember that.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I’m one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don’t mean much to me. They’re beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they’re ultimately not important.
I don’t exercise – that’s something I struggle with.
I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.
Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?
The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution… Here it is: Put a price on carbon.
There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond – topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.
Movies were a struggle for me – they didn’t come easy.
The best antidote to poverty remains simple – a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn’t be any press without the censorship.
A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can’t employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school.
You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals – because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
We need to look marginalized people in our community in the eye and listen to their stories of struggle, heartache and impossibility.
So the lover must struggle for words.
Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
I really like how the characters always has to go through some type of long journey that’s like a crazy struggle. And these anime shows give women power. She’s always the queen or somebody that you cannot beat – I love that.
One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.
From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country’s best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.
My head was in the clouds after ‘Bobby,’ but my struggle had only begun because at the age of 21, I had become a hero. But then I had realized that I have to keep my feet on ground.
There have always been difficult situations for activists in Pakistan. In the 1960s, people fought for linguistic and ethnic rights in relation to the Bangladesh movement and the struggle of the people in the western Balochistan province.
This election marks a significant moment in Haiti; it not only serves as the basis of hope along the road to democracy, but also serves as a testament to the resolve and character of the Haitian people during their long struggle for peace, reconciliation, and prosperity.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.
