Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernhard Schlink

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

This era, as with any era, illustrates the struggle of the African-American to be recognized.

Tommy Amaker

It was really a struggle for us offensively.

Tiki Barber

It was a tough sled. We struggled a little bit.

It's a win. We're up, we play great, we're not up and it's a struggle all night. Emotionally, we weren't into it.

David Sedaris

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

David Sedaris

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

David Mixner

Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.

David Gray

I find everything a struggle.

David Satcher

The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.

C. Wright Mills

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

C. Wright Mills

What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other; each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.

Defensively we were okay. Offensively we struggled to put together the combinations we're used to.

Jim Parsons

I've been a working actor for many years, but it's not always been successful for me. I certainly struggled in the past.

Things are not going well at the moment. It's been a real struggle.

This is a struggle for our very survival, not for any ideology.

Brett Lee

If u can't get along with Dravid, u're struggling in life

Brett Lee

If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life

Boris Spassky

Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.

Argus Hamilton

President Obama compared himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the struggle to bring about change. The comparison is flawed. They spent years in jail before taking political power, while politicians from Chicago do it the other way around.

Aravind Adiga

Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

Barbara Kingsolver

I struggle with confidence, every time. I'm never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won't want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.

Bai Ling

I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.

Augustus

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.

Arthur L. Herman

Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Arthur Koestler

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

Art Spiegelman

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

Azar Nafisi

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

Azar Nafisi

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

Ayn Rand

If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them.

Ayn Rand

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

Aubrey O'Day

I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.