Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Biden

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Kurt Vonnegut

A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.

Adriana Lima

I love my job and I love my children. It's really about figuring out your schedules and getting everything down that you need to do and sticking to your plan.

Michael Vick

When I got hit, it was painful, but I got up and was able to walk, ... I was able to go back out there and fight it out like I always do.

Abraham Lincoln

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Yogi Berra

I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

Vivica A. Fox

A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.

Valerie Simpson

I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

Valentina Tereshkova

I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

Wolfman Jack

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

Wole Soyinka

Seven is the magic figure, because that's a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun.

Loudon Wainwright III

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

We did some great things out there. We played as a team, we communicated, but we just have to score. We have to figure out how to score.

Shalrie Joseph

We didn't play our best, we didn't finish our chances, but this team never quits. We keep fighting to the end. We never give up until the final whistle blows.

We are going to try. We are going to go kicking and screaming and fighting all the way. It's for our kids.

Woodrow Wilson

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

Walter Benjamin

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.

Walter Benjamin

When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

Walter Benjamin

White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

Walter Benjamin

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

Sundar Pichai

There are different usage patterns - I never do email during the day. I don't multitask well at all. I don't know how to be in a meeting and participate and be on email at the same time. I do see some people do it more effectively. I've never quite figured that out.

Adam Cole

My all-time favorite match that I've ever had was against Kyle O'Reilly in 2012, the 'hybrid fighting rules match' where we were bleeding buckets all over the place. And it was really a match that took my career to the next level.

Adam Braun

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

Adam Duritz

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

Ani Difranco

For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.

Ani Difranco

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

Ally Carter

I saw the gun. I sensed the van as it rushed forward, seconds away and coming faster. I heard the screams of the fight behind us. But nothing that night was louder than the masked man's astonished whisper as he looked at the boy who stood beside me and said, 'you?

Allen Ginsberg

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

Allan McNish

As a driver you enjoy winning races, and if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip and tuck stuff.

Alison Sweeney

One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.

Anthony Jeselnik

One of my favorite things on the show was just getting to do my own monologue and talking about someone who killed themselves, or making a joke about some horrible tragedy - I love being able to fight for and get on TV. I just think it's so different.