“I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.” HumansTwoSidesDarkDealsStruggleElementsAspectVampireWho We AreFascinatedFascinationDark Side Author:Sheryl Lee
“A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.” TwoTogetherStruggleSpecialBrotherDramaLeagueMy BrotherEmpoweredJoiningTwo SistersJoining TogetherSticking Together Author:Rebel Wilson
“There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.” IfsKnowsWritingI CanTwoCharacterNamesSoundStruggleTroubleFindingsLetters Author:George R. R. Martin
“A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.” PeopleTwoStrongStruggleLove Each OtherStrong Marriage Author:Dave Willis
“Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.” PeopleHeartTwoMomentsLastsGivenSimpleHalfStruggleCenturyTelevisionTvsBattleConversationSittingAdvantageSurfacePsychologicalMemorableInterviewsStoppingFormatPower StruggleMemorable Moments Author:David Frost
“The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!” WorldTwoStruggleDemocracyCompromisePermitFascismTwo WorldsNo Compromise Author:Benito Mussolini
“What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.” PeopleTwoDifficultLeaderStruggleBalanceObjectivesTreatedMinistersPrimeConventionsPrime MinisterSeekersDiscouragingAsylumsSmugglingAsylum Seekers Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.” TwoIdeasCausesStruggleCommandObedienceYieldReverseLove Each Other Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures
“The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.” YearsTwoWarStatesAbleChristianNationsStruggleModernEuropeDestructionArmyAncientDenyBrokeRanTortureAgencyCivilizedFearfulImmenseAsiaUtilityBattlefieldsDoubtfulGreat WarCannibalismRuthlessnessModern War Author:Winston Churchill
“The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!” WorldYearsTwoIdeasStatesStruggleDemocracyGreaterCompromiseAlternativesReliefCyclesPermitFascismRegimesFascistsTwo WorldsNo Compromise Author:Benito Mussolini
“Everything is a struggle. Everything is relative, too, so I still feel like I'm struggling, in many aspects. I'm not worried about paying my rent next month, but in about two months, we'll see.” FeelsStillsTwoNextStruggleMonthsAspectWorriedRelativeTwo Months Author:Leslie Mann
“Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.” WritingYearsTwoHomePastPovertyStruggleNew YorkTrainTalesIsolationFascinatingImmigrantsStringsHardshipSurvivorIrelandUnlikelyOrphanCasualtiesBakersMidwestChristina Author:Cathy Marie Buchanan
“And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!” MindTwoMotherCan DoStruggleSawsLessonsOvercomingGrandmotherHardshipInvaluableAmazing Woman Author:Gloria Estefan
“The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power.” TwoFactsMightPoliticalPartyStruggleAmountRepublicanDemocratPatternsPersistentAmerican PoliticsTwo Party System Book:Parties and Politics in America Source: Parties and Politics in America