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.

Billy Chadwick

We knew it'd be tough. The whole match can be summed up by what happened at No. 1 singles. We looked like we were in control, then the next thing you know, we're fighting for our life. Our guys fought hard when they had to.

Jeni Hopkins

We just kept fighting and fighting. It's hard to play a team for the third time ? we knew what they were going to do and they knew what we were going to do.

Douglas Muzzio

There is some truth to 'You've come a long way, baby, ... They're fighting it out on the premier media stage in the world.

Kristy Curry

We've got a lot more to lose than they (Michigan) have to gain. We're fighting for a Big Ten title. We don't want them to take that away from us.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Tommy Shaw

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

John Rawls

The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.

Mark Steyn

The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.

Peter Benenson

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

Peter Benenson

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for

Mason Cooley

I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.

Alia Shawkat

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.

Marc Gerecht

The facts on the ground. We still don't have that many people in Iraq we can go to and get information that makes sense.

Scott Brown

The facts are the facts, ... The truth never changes.

Claudio Hummes

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

Thomas Hobbes

The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

Thomas Hobbes

Fact be vertuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

Michael Dowd

Facts are God’s native tongue.

Source Unknown

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

Jim Harrison

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.