The Struggle Quotes

The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains.

I like to live in the present. I struggle with that, though, because - even for all of this "letting your life flow" stuff - I also have anxieties.

His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.

On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life.

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

I write for anybody struggling to manage their money.

I understand why many are still poor or struggling to make just a middle-income lifestyle. I'm a fiscal conservative, but I also have compassion for people who make financial mistakes.

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

We have to stop judging people who are struggling with their weight.

If I were scared of rednecks, I would've moved on a long time ago. That's not a fear I struggle with.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Donald Trump is more concerned about the American people, American citizens, people who are here legally, people that are struggling in this economy.

Friday means popcorn and multiplexes, speaking of movies, and it is the multi that is the problem. So many movie screens. The struggle of what to put on them.

I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard.

Life is a climb and it's a struggle getting to the top but the drop to the bottom can be quick and so I think you have to embrace every moment of the day.

People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

I try to do one to two days with no meat. I try to lessen my gluten. Those are things that I struggle with.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

It's very difficult to look at it in a kind of a free manner, what reality is. That was my first struggle, to see it as it is, rather than tainted by my own previous thoughts.

Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

You don't want to just preach to people; you want to get them emotionally involved, and I think you do that with a wonderful human story about one person's struggle.

I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring

I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school.

We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

CEOs will struggle to keep themselves and their companies current, relevant, and ahead of the curve.

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

History records endless struggles to enlarge those realms, inspiring ones; it also records painful reversals and setbacks.

For the last couple of hundred years, there have been struggles about this. Even the Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the constitution talk about personal rights.

I think at the end of a show, you have to walk out with a message. That's my hardest struggle right now; that's what I'm working towards.

As a working mom, I struggle to find time to work out and go for runs. I usually run two to three times a week and work out with a trainer once a week. I try to go for a longer run on Sundays.

I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.