Quotes About Battlers

#1. The inter-relationships between people have always fascinated me, as a director. And particularly those who are battlers in life, those who are on the fringes of life, they've always fascinated me, and I've always loved working on those characters.

George Ogilvie

#2. Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

Malcolm Turnbull

#3. Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything son.

Donnell Rawlings

#4. And I declare myself free
from ignorant love. You easy lovers
and forgivers of mankind, stand back!
I will love you at a distance,
and not because you deserve it.
My love must be descriminate
or fail to bear its weight.

Wendell Berry

#5. By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#6. I'd been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn't remember exactly, although blood was involved.

Spencer Quinn

#7. One owes loyalty, only, to those who demonstrate in kind.

T.F. Hodge

#8. I'm a competent novelist. I'm getting better. But I'm a really good short story writer.

Tim Pratt

#9. A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

Plutarch