Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Chris Christie

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

Chogyam Trungpa

In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

Chinua Achebe

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

Chinua Achebe

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Chief Joseph

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

China Mieville

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Eddie Izzard

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Chogyam Trungpa

Ultimately, the definition of bravery is not being afraid of yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

L. Neil Smith

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

Katy Perry

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

Cheryl Strayed

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Cheri Huber

Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it.

Charles Lamb

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

Charles Godfrey Leland

The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

Bernhard Schlink

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Benjamin Franklin

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

Che Guevara

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

Vincent Brooks

They taught and they trained, and they showed what it meant, really, to be a soldier in the United States,

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

Chinese Proverbs

The soldier who retreated 50 paces jeered at the one who retreated 100 paces

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.