Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Robeson

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

Paul Robeson

Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

Paul Gauguin

I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

Patrick McGoohan

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

Patrick Ness

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Parker Stevenson

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

Lilly Singh

If I could give advice to anyone, it would be that sometimes the best way you can fight a problem - and this is going to be a little bit controversial - is to not address it.

Lilly Singh

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

Leon Trotsky

Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to frighten, horrify, and dishearten the enemy but also in order to shake up our own ranks, to show them that there was no turning back, that ahead lay either complete victory or complete ruin.

Leon Trotsky

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

Lauren Oliver

Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time.

Lauren Oliver

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

Lauren Oliver

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Larry Wall

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

L. Frank Baum

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.

L. Neil Smith

Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.

Paul Signac

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

Kristen Stewart

I was just fighting dwarves then hit my knee really hard.

Kelly Hu

With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.

Margaret Thatcher

We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

Elizabeth Warren

We don't win what we don't fight for.

Elizabeth Warren

I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.

Elizabeth Warren

Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.

Elizabeth Taylor

A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.

Elia Kazan

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

Eli Roth

Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.

Bea Arthur

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

Martin Amis

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

R. A. Salvatore

Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.

Mother Jones

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men

Taraji P. Henson

I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"

Leighton Meester

Figure out what works for you and what doesn't.

John Daly

Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.