“I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.” MenFeelsStruggleFeetFilth Author:John Howard Lawson
“Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'” ThinkingWayGivingCertainChallengesStruggleFeetGiving UpDown AndPerseveranceMy WayKneesBeatenNever Giving Up Author:Randy Pausch
“Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to be free. This nation, this idea called America, was and always will be a new world -- our new world.” WorldStillsIdeasDreamAmericaNationsMillionsStruggleFeetEndureImmigrantsShoreNew World Author:George H. W. Bush
“How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.” PeopleWayYearsPastFallProcessGrowthEffortStruggleFeetSubjectsVictoryRootsSightMathematicsTablesMathShouldersMathematicalHorizonPaceSquaresEquationsRippleArithmeticAlgebraTangledCalculusTheoremsMultiplicationStumpsSquare RootsHardwoodQuadraticsQuadratic Equation Author:Stephen Leacock
“I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.” IfsThinkingBodyTurnsWishWalksWatchesStruggleTreeFeetDyingGrewMouthsDiedHelplessSpidersBarkTrunksTangled Book:Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches
“Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.” ShouldHas BeensBookDoneFactsEarthFacesStruggleFailingWrittenFeetPerseveranceRisingPensPermitContemplatingProbabilityCrushedRising Again Author:Fannie Hurst
“George Clooney is trying his own way but he's struggling too because he has to deal with America. Yet, if he has a foot in Europe, it's not for nothing.” IfsWayTryingAmericaDealsStruggleFeetEurope Author:Juliette Binoche
“That truth which you swallow from others will not be yours...you have to realize truth and work it our for yourself according to your own nature...All must struggle to be individuals-strong, standing on your own feet, thinking your own thoughts, realizing you own Self. No use swallowing doctrines others pass on-standing up together like soldiers in jail, sitting down together, all eating the same food, all nodding their heads at the same time. Variation is the sign of life. Sameness is the sign of death.” ThinkingSelfUseTogetherIndividualStrongRealizingStruggleFeetEatingSittingStandingSoldierDoctrineWorking ItJailVariationSitting DownSamenessSwallowingNoddingSigns Of Life Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power. The day, to use the strength which has been given us, to go forth to work with it till the evening.” WayHas BeensHardUseHandsLife IsNightFightingEvilGivenPrinciplesStruggleFeetPrayingDrinkBreathsEveningWrestlingInchesFountain Author:Florence Nightingale