“Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.” HardChallengesPowerfulStruggleMajorsCoachesPushingFierceArenaRomaniaPushing Each Other Author:Bela Karolyi
“The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him.” MenForceDarknessStruggleMajorsNakedThemeWormsUnyielding Author:Nikos Kazantzakis
“This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.” KnowsWantStruggleMajorsFeatures Author:David Bohm
“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.” WellsMayMightTermPayStrugglePiecesSecurityMajorsPicksChineseScoreNational SecurityNsaPay The PriceMolesBeijingSnowden Author:Arthur L. Herman
“When the media worries about what Hillary’s hair looks like or what my hair looks like, that’s a real problem. We have millions of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water, who want to know what candidates can do to improve their lives, and the media will very often spend more time worrying about hair than the fact that we’re the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people.” PeopleKnowsWantLooksRealCountryFactsProblemCareEarthWaterCan DoMillionsWorryStruggleMediaHairMajorsHealth CareCandidatesGuaranteesMore TimeReal Problems Author:Bernie Sanders
“The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it's far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.” MindChristianityStruggleCreationBirthMajorsLowsBlockVirginsStumblingMy StruggleStumbling BlocksVirgin BirthMind Boggling Book:A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob Source: A Stone for a Pillow: Journeys with Jacob
“We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.” PeopleWorldCountryHappensFightingPovertyMillionsStruggleChildhoodMajorsHighestStandardsDeserveAbsolutesTablesRateConvictionMinimumWorld HistoryStandards Of Living Author:Bernie Sanders
“The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private river of storytelling that joins a major ocean of human struggle and joy. The act of enunciation - the forms and strategies of storytelling - are every bit as literarily serious as they are in poetry or other prose forms.” HumansFormJoyBitsBoysStruggleCrazySeriousOceanMajorsRiversStrategyBraveMemoirStorytellingInstanceProse Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all avocations, he became a great scholar, a statesman, a major general, a Senator, a Presidential candidate.... The truth is, no man ever started so low that accomplished so much in all our history. Not Franklin or Lincoln even.” MenMadeSelfDealsPovertyStruggleTruth IsMajorsLowsLaborPresidentialCandidatesAccomplishedScholarSenatorsObscurityStatesmenFranklinSelf MadePresidential CandidateSelf Made ManGarfield Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.” ChildrenArtSaidKidsSchoolArtistLeftBrainStruggleCollegeSonPleaseMajorsHigh SchoolMathAcceptedMy ChildrenMy SonDisappointedCapabilityArt SchoolAdvisorsLeft And RightBeing Accepted Author:Frank Gehry
“We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health insurance, and to those who are working but on their own are not able to afford it and their employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at an affordable price. We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten million Americans now have insurance who didn't have it before the Affordable Care Act, and that is a great step forward.” MadeStillsCareAbleCompanyStepsRolesMillionsStruggleProgressTenMajorsHealthcareEmployedEmployersProvisionAffordableSteps ForwardInsurance CompaniesAffordable Care ActHealth Insurance Companies Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think if we, say, if all of the major leaders in this struggle [for human's rights] were at, at war with each other, then I think it would be very difficult to make this social revolution the kind of powerful revolution that it's proved to be.” IfsThinkingHumansKindWarWould BeSocialDifficultPowerfulLeaderStruggleRightsRevolutionMajorsSocial Revolution Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Many activists don't want to hear about some grand narrative, one that could unify all of our struggles. So the major issue that needs to be addressed is how to get people to see that there is indeed a grand narrative which just happens to be true.” PeopleWantNeedsHappensStruggleIssuesMajorsBeing TrueNarrativeActivist Author:Michael Yates
“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.” InspirationalTryingPersonsRealHardTodayValuesGivenStruggleBuildingHard WorkDemandMajorsAdversityStriveSelfishBlockLazyInsensitiveValue Of LifeBuilding BlocksReal ValueHardwork And DeterminationWorking So HardWorking Very HardValue Of Hard WorkGiven LifeStriving To Be The Best Author:Pope Paul VI
“I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.” ThinkingYearsForceClassStruggleProgressViolenceMajorsBuiltViolentIdeologyCommunismClass Struggle Author:Steven Pinker
“While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.” KnowsWellsChurchStruggleOne DayMajorsRaisedPreacherNot Interested Author:Charles R. Swindoll
“Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.” TodayReligionCultureStruggleAtheismMajorsWinnerRivalsReligion Today Author:E. O. Wilson
“Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground.” ChildrenMotherStruggleFiveSonMonthsHusbandOfficeMarriedMajorsPressureCancerEightMy ChildrenMy HusbandMy SonRadiationBurnedSurgeryThreateningDental Author:Anne Graham Lotz