I had to fight hard against discrimination, poverty, and ignorance... but I never quit. – Roberto Clemente0
I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope. – Sebastian0
I feel like I've been standing in the middle of a crowded street yelling, 'Hey, I'm up here!' and you finally looked up and saw me. – Peggy Olson0
Don't ever give up. Even if it's painful, even if it's agonizing, don't try to take the easy way out. – Zenitsu Agatsuma0
This is me. I think it's apparent that I need to rethink my life a little bit. What's my problem? First of all, I'm a rat. Which means life is hard. – Remy0
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. – Winston Smith0
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. – Atticus Finch0
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. – Atticus Finch0
The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal.0
He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. – Ahab0
All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. – Narrator0
I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass. – Ahab0
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. – Ahab0
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. – Dmitri Karamazov0
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. – The Elder Zosima0
The awful thing is that beauty is not only a terrible, but also a mysterious thing. Here the devil is struggling with God, and the battlefield is the human heart. – Dmitri Karamazov0
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. – Narrator (on Ralph)0
And the little farmers watched debt creep up on them like the tide. They sprayed the trees and sold no crop, they pruned and grafted and could not pick the crop.0
Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're a dirty son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you're scum.0
And the great highway was alive with people moving like ants, scrambling for food, for a place to lie down, for a moment of rest.0
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. – Santiago0