#rug

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ↗

— George Orwell

#constantly #good #good prose #like #nothing

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. ↗

— William Osler

#been #certain #effort #ideals #made

I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about. ↗

— Clive Owen

#actor #breaks #fortunate #friends #get

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#dependency #fire #fling #flood #forces

I have a small Thai boy who dresses me and every year I let him pick what campaign I am going to work on. It saves me having to worry about it and, bless him, it makes him feel involved in the struggle for global liberation. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#am #bless #boy #campaign #dresses

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#pleases #struggle #us #victory

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. ↗

— Alan Paton

#books #die #end #hard #human

The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#cost #fire #nation #our #prairie

I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the potential to do bad things. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#bad #bad guy #because #calling #films

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#education #get #got #living #struggling