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.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Cory Monteith

I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were cool and dress how they dressed, talk how they talked, do whatever they were into. This led to a period of drugs and anchohol. When his family gave him an ultimatum to get clean or they'd report him to the police Corey said, "I was done fighting myself. I finally said, "I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.

Cory Booker

Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

Clive Owen

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

Nora Ephron

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

David Weinberger

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

Denis Diderot

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Dan Colen

At the end of the day, you cant have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

Johannes Kepler

He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.

Ogden Nash

When there are monsters there are miracles.

Og Mandino

I can accomplish far more than I have, and I will, for why would the miracle which produced me end with my birth? Why can I not extend that miracle to my deeds of today?

Nhat Hanh

You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.

John Green

The miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.

Cassandra Clare

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

Oswald Chambers

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.