Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Putin

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

William Morris

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

Yingluck Shinawatra

I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

Yochai Benkler

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

Yitzhak Shamir

Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.

Yitzhak Rabin

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

Yitzhak Rabin

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

Yitzhak Rabin

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.

Winona LaDuke

Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

Winston Churchill

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

Winston Churchill

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

Winston Churchill

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Winston Churchill

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Rebecca Solnit

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.

Rick Warren

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

Rick Riordan

Stop!" he yelled at the others. "Multigrain fighting is not allowed!

Rick Riordan

I imagined having that bronzed dragon in our fight against the Titan lord Kronos. His monsters would think twice about attacking camp if they have to face that thing. On the other hand, if the dragon decided to go berserk again and attack the campers-that would pretty much stink.

Rick Riordan

You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he told me, "it is, along with gladiator fighting and Pac-Man, one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. I would expect all civilized young men to know the rules.

Rick Riordan

Good fighting with you, Seaweed Brain." Ditto.

Rick Riordan

Normally, as long as I'm telling him what to do, he wins in a fight.

Tony Snow

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

Steve Zahn

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

Veronica Roth

Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.

Veronica Roth

Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some of the same types. Erudite who switch to Dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become . . . I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries.

Veronica Roth

Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him; I want to know the answer too.

Rebecca Solnit

Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use…time spent there is not work time, yet without that time the mind becomes sterile, dull, domesticated. The fight for free space — for wilderness and public space — must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space.

Robert Goulet

I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.

Robert Goulet

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

Robert G. Allen

Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.

Saddam Hussein

Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.

Ryan Guzman

My favorite fighter is Anderson Silva.