Quotes about Struggle

My right and my privilege to stand here before you has been won—won in my lifetime—by the blood and the sweat of the innocent.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.

I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought