Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

Barbara Tuchman

The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.

Aya Cash

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

Arthur Golden

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Arthur Balfour

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

Arthur C. Clarke

Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.

Bela Fleck

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

Barry Zito

I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

Ban Ki-moon

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

Ban Ki-moon

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Arundhati Roy

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

Arundhati Roy

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

Arundhati Roy

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

Ari Fleischer

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

Anthony Trollope

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

Derrick Rose

We got to win. Win no matter what. Trip, kick somebody, fight, bite. Whatever. Win.

Derrick Jensen

Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.

Demi Lovato

Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When I decided to implement it in my life, a whole new world opened up for me. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it. Goal: Be mindful of the tone of your thoughts.

Demetri Martin

Every fight is a food fight when youre a cannibal.

Dean Koontz

Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.

Daniel Gillies

It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.

Daniel H. Wilson

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

Daniel Goleman

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

Daniel Goleman

Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.

Bob Dylan

The warrior who's strength is not to fight.

Boris Yeltsin

Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

Bruce Forsyth

I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.

Brigham Young

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

Brigham Young

When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

Brian Posehn

I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.

Brendon Burchard

The ultimate secret to growth is finding something worth fighting for

Bradley Whitford

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.

Barry Goldwater

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.