Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Al Franken

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

Charles James Fox

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

Charles Kennedy

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

Charles Kingsley

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

Charles Kingsley

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Channing Tatum

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.

Channing Tatum

It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.

Channing Tatum

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

Channing Tatum

I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.

Channing Tatum

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.

Channing Tatum

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

Billie Holiday

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

Billy Bob Thornton

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

Eckhart Tolle

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.

Eckhart Tolle

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

Elie Wiesel

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Elie Wiesel

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

Edward Said

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Edward Snowden

The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any other nation out there. And when there's such a low barrier to entering the domain of cyber-attacks we're starting a fight that we can't win.

Edward Snowden

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

Edward Snowden

If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

Edward Snowden

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

We have a real win with Brett. We want him to fight for a place until the end of the season. He has played well this season.

We have an uphill fight now. That was a winnable game on the road.

Bruce Willis

If you take guns away from legal gun owners then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs. You'd use a rock or tear one of these chairs out of the floor. Hey, maybe I've been watching too many Bruce Willis movies!

Bruce Cockburn

I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

Brion James

Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.

Brandon Lee

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

Brandon Heath

You know we don't have to wait until the end of the night, just to say that something's wrong and maybe nobody's right. We're all victims in a battle, that we never had to fight. It's okay. It's alright. Steady now, we're in this thing together.

Brandon Sanderson

Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

Brandon Sanderson

Elend: "Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is another victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frusturated!" There was a brief pause. "In the end they shall kill us. But first they shall fear us!