Quotes about fig
fighting people poverty
In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy. Van Jones
fighting disrespect creation
Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation. Van Jones
fighting past hands
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. Van Jones
fighting leader environmental
Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing? Van Jones
fighting people trying
Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies. Van Jones
fighting battle shooting
A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded. Tyne Daly
fighting past hard
Ive never had to fight hard for anything Ive gotten in the past. Tyrese Gibson
fighting beats bases
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch. Ty Cobb
figures thinness
[On her thinness:] It's not what you'd call a figure, is it? Twiggy
fighting corruption clean
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves. Vladimir Putin
fighting prison provocative
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. Vladimir Putin
fighting giving quality
Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving. Walt Disney
fighting men he-man
The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them. Walt Disney
fighting november dessert
You talk about me, I am chicken to fight you. That's not true. I bring you dessert on November 12th. Vitali Klitschko
fighting balance instability
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. Saul Bellow
fighting chiefs conditions
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it. Saul Bellow
fighting blow land
In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt. Saul Alinsky
fighting thinking would-be
I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous... Sarah Dessen
fighting thinking should
Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight... Sandra Bullock
fighting men sea
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is. Rose Wilder Lane
fighting winning thinking
I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.
fighting actors might
I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. Rooney Mara
fighting destiny law
All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own. Roger Scruton
fighting thinking people
A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy. Robert Townsend
fighting thinking guitar
I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting. Robert Quine
fighting low-self-esteem shells
I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause. Sarah McLachlan
fighting play scene
I loved, loved, loved the fight that I got to do with Matthew Bomer, who plays Bryce, when we did the fight scene that was back to back in the Buy More. Yvonne Strahovski
fighting men navy
I never trust a fighting man who doesn't smoke or drink. William Halsey
fighting men slave
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes! Wendell Phillips
fighting government ideas
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature. Wendell Phillips
fighting your-side law
There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor. W. Somerset Maugham
fighting law recognise
I fight because international law recognises my right.
fighting player squares
Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something. Wynton Marsalis