#struggle

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. ↗

— Rebecca West

#difficult #easy #english #more #much

I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart. ↗

— Emily Watson

#attention #because #calculating #figuring #generally

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#setbacks #struggle #succeeding #tough

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#grief #happy #moments #struggle #writing

To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#consciousness #creator #deeds #demands #doing

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#age #arms #best #bravest #came

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#death #fact #hand #struggle #walks

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story. ↗

— John le Carre

#good #good story #harness #same #spying

I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive – those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ↗

— Osamu Dazai

#life #struggle #work #beauty

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#troubles #beauty