Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wislawa Szymborska

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Wislawa Szymborska

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Will Self

Because I was a young man so, of course, I did get into fights. The last time I actually was in a fight, in the sense of throwing punches myself, was probably when I was at college, not since 1980. But I remember being attacked quite a few times in the '80s.

Will Rogers

The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.

Will Rogers

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

Wes Moore

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

W. Averell Harriman

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

W. E. B. Du Bois

This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization in America as a Black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

Zora Neale Hurston

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

Zachary Quinto

I also feel like the kinds of jobs I want right now - I consider them aspirational. I want to raise the bar for myself, and I am in this interesting spot where I do get offered a lot of things, but frankly, the majority of the things I get offered I'm not really interested in doing. I want to do the things that I have to fight for.

Yukio Mishima

I had no taste for defeat — much less victory — without a fight.

Yulia Tymoshenko

I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

Yoweri Museveni

We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

Ziggy Marley

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

Ziggy Marley

Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.

Yvonne Strahovski

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.

Ty Cobb

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.

Vladimir Putin

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

Vladimir Putin

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Vladimir Putin

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

Vladimir Putin

There is no other way to settle the Syrian conflict other than by strengthening the existing legitimate government agencies, support them in their fight against terrorism and, of course, at the same time encourage them to start a positive dialogue with the "healthy" part of the opposition and launch political transformations.

William Allen White

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

Wilfred Owen

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

Voltaire

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

William Least Heat-Moon

The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.

William Booth

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight...

William Booth

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

Wilhelm Reich

In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or flattened out. The danger, especially of distortion, is particularly great in the case of orgonomy. We must be scientific, we cannot be political in these matters. And I personally declare that I will be the first to fight with all my strength, with whatever I've got against such a distortion of our principles.

Walter Scott

In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.

Walter Scott

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

Walter Scott

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

Vladimir Putin

There is nothing in common between al-Assad and ISIS, they fight against each other.