Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Suzman

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

Helen Thomas

President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand.

Helena Bonham Carter

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

Heinz Guderian

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

John Knowles

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

Johanna Lindsey

But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.

Haruki Murakami

You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you.

Harlan Ellison

Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the flow and rush into the future. This was in a less cynical time before toxic waste dumping and pollution filled the waterway of Chronus with the detritus of empty hours wasted minutes years of repetition and time that has been killed.

Greg Behrendt

If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.

Gordon Parks

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

Gordon Parks

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Gordon Ramsay

I am what I am. A fighter.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

John Dryden

A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.

John Legend

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

John Lennon

The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour.

Jimmy Doolittle

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Jimmy Cliff

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

Jimmy Buffett

I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

Rafael Benitez

Totten-ham have a good team, a good squad and a good manager. They will fight to be in the top four and we will try to do the same. I don't know if it's possible but we will try.

They got a run of their own. They didn't back down. They kept fighting.

They get nothing out of the oil, and they produce all of the oil. They're tired of it, so they're going to fight, and they're going to fight until death.

J. Taylor

They don't give you a sense that you're fighting in this big place with waters and mountains.

Shani Davis

It's not like we're going to fight each other and roll around in the snow. We're adults.

Matt Treanor

For me, it's just incentive for us to surprise some people.... We're going to have to scrap and fight and show up to the party ready to play.

Amir Khan

There's a lot more to come from me. I am only young, I'm only 19, I've got a long way to go. I'm sure (promoter) Frank (Warren) is going to pick the right fights for me and before you know it, I will be ready to go for the world titles.

It was only his second start since July, and he had to fight hard. I'd have rather seen him not get hit and win by five, but I'm happy.

Kevin Anderson

It was the first time I'd gone ten rounds and it was a great learning fight for me,

Patty Schnyder

It was really tough. She had a pretty good run in the second set and I really had to fight back and focus on every point. But I was really happy the way it turned out at the end of the second set and I feel ready for my next opponent.

Dave Franco

To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever. I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I would love to do small parts in my friends' movies or things that I'm directing myself. I do envision myself behind the camera as I get a little bit older.

David Mitchell

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.