Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morihei Ueshiba

Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.

Morihei Ueshiba

Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

Marat Safin

I'm not fighting with myself.

Joseph Alsop

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

Joseph Barbera

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

Jordin Sparks

Everybody can relate to feeling hopeless, at some point in their life, and everybody can relate to fighting for something that's worth fighting for, and everybody can relate to a person in their life that makes them go, "I don't know why you're here right now," but then, at the end of the day, realizing you'd do anything for them.

Kelley Armstrong

The three "F"s of being a werewolf, Feeding, Fighting, and...Reproduction

Khaled Hosseini

In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban and the restrictions they were imposing on the Afghan people, most notably women.At some point in the story, there was a casual reference to them having banned the game of kite fighting. This detail struck a personal chord with me, as I had grown up in Kabul flying kite with my friends.

Narendra Modi

Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.

Narendra Modi

It is not easy to fight elections with a development motto and I am glad people of Gujarat rose above personal and emotional tangles and prioritized development over everything else.

Narendra Modi

The government would devote all its effort to empower the poor and give them strength to fight poverty. Skill development would be accompanied by the spirit of Shrameva Jayate.

The guys weren't overly happy about it. To them it's an integrity thing, but they didn't figure it was that huge of a thing,

Ferdie Pacheco

The heat was as intense as any fight I've ever been in,

John Brown

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

Ozzie Guillen

A lot of managers tell their G.M. what they want to hear, ... I won't do that. I won't lie to him. I won't talk to him as a boss. I'll fight him.

Henry Rollins

Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.

Henry Rollins

There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

Henry Rollins

I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time. I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

Judge for yourself who's still fighting for change and who got sick on power, because the person in the Miraflores has forgotten about the people of Venezuela.

Henry Adams

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

Henry A. Kissinger

I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.

Henry A. Kissinger

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

Manny Pacquiao

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

Malcolm X

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

John C. Maxwell

Churches whose members fight with one another have lost their vision for the lost.

Joichi Ito

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Jon Bon Jovi

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

John Yoo

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

Lord Acton

I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

John Christopher

You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

John Ciardi

At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.

John Breaux

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

John Bruton

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.