It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I wrote ‚Channel Orange‘ in two weeks. The end product wasn’t always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I’ve had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Intimates are predestined.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

‚American Graffiti‘ was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Life is warfare.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.