Famous Quotes & Sayings

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Cloris Leachman

I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Jeff Rawls

When I lost my job as a firefighter, it was because I was fighting for what I thought was right. I didn't know to keep my mouth shut and they shot the messenger.

Edward Snowden

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

Elizabeth Edwards

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Bernie Sanders

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Bob Dole

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

Ben Jonson

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Dorothea Dix

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Donna Summer

I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.

Damian Marley

Fear not of evil.. Everyday dem flesh it grow old Changes of the time take the toll.

E. B. White

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

Douglas Horton

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Adolf Hitler

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Billy Corgan

I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

Brad Williams

Every now and then you'll say something that didn't quite work. But the important thing is, as a comic, you try to learn why it didn't. And then you adjust and figure out how to either make it work or just abandon it because it's just not funny.

Brian McDermott

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.