One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic approach to Islam, they traditionally rank among the best organized a...
Right now, we are in a peak cycle. There’s tremendous energy out there, directed against the state. It’s not all focused, but it’s there, and it’s building. Maybe this will be sufficient to accomplish what we must accomplish over the fairly s...
Sometimes we carry unhappy feelings about past hurts too long. We spend too much energy dwelling on things that have passed and cannot be changed. We struggle to close the door and let go of the hurt. If, after time, we can forgive whatever may have ...
[Adam and Barbara struggle to understand the "Handbook for the Recently Deceased"] Barbara: I hate this. Just- can you give me the basics? Adam: Well, this book isn't arranged that way. What do you wanna know? Barbara: Well, why did you disappear whe...
[first title card] Title card/crawl: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Title card/crawl: Luke Skywalker has returned to his home planet of Tatooine in an attempt to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of the vile gangster Jabba th...
Zoltán looked at them through the window. He hated the man. Now he hated work. Work for these? Work with these? He saw before him the great puszta. Here the long, cracked stripe of a ditch once again stole the blue of the sky, transforming it into a...
And he howled in agony, in a pain that would never cease as long as he lived. His tortured voice echoed in those mountains for a long long time...
I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.
It is hard to struggle for success but harder for survival.
We all struggle only to make tomorrow.
My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.
It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.
When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.
Even when months and days are long, life is short.
