Struggle Quotes - Page 25

• There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

  William Ralph Inge

  Fighting, Hands, Law

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• Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

  Euripides

  Knowledge, Skills, Effort

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Long, Use, Alive

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• In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Energy, Development, Littles

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• The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Home, Triumph, Conservative

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• The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

  Robert McKee

  Talking, Balance, Students

  "The Real McKee" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2003.

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• I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

  Scott Caan

  Who I Am, Want, Financial

  "Scott Caan Is a Sensitive Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2011.

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• 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.

  James F. Byrnes

  Military, People, Germany

  James F. Byrnes (1947). “Speaking Frankl.y”

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• Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

  George Brett

  People, League, Succeed

  Interview with C. Trent Rosecrans, www.cbssports.com. July 8, 2012.

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• War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Peace, Real, War

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• Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a mixed experience. I hated them because they separated me from the dearest thing in the world-the struggle of my people for rebirth. At the same time, they were a blessing because I had what is so rare in this world-the opportunity of thinking about basic issues, the opportunity of examining afresh the beliefs I held.

  Sukarno

  Opportunity, Thinking, Blessing

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• Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Men, Parent, Progress

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

  Eugenio Montale

  Believe, Two, Evil

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• The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

  Terry Eagleton

  Heart, Political, Feminism

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

  Susie Orbach

  Writing, Trying, Firsts

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2009.

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• Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against...Christ.

  Denis Fahey

  Long, Perspective, Age

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• I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Player, Thinking, Looks

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• My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

  James Frey

  Fighting, Wife, Comfortable

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• I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Thinking, Gist, Looks

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• My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

  Edie Falco

  Dog, Children, Crazy

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• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  Victoria Jackson

  Christian, Thinking, Would Be

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• I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Hero, Cuba, Citizens

  "Lincoln Diaz-Balart opts out of 2010" by Josh Kraushaar, www.politico.com. February 11, 2010.

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• The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

  Marilyn French

  Life, Views, Matter

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• If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I didn't want to be a struggling actor at 36 with five kids, doing something I hated. You see the story so much. It's such a vicious business to be in when you're not meant to be in it.

  Jessica Alba

  Jobs, Kids, College

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• One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.

  Douglas Booth

  Jobs, Holiday, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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