Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Riordan

Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else.

Willie Aames

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

William Safire

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

William Kristol

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

William Jennings Bryan

I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.

Virginia Woolf

I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

Virginia Woolf

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Woody Guthrie

All of you cowboys, fight for your land.

Woodrow Wilson

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

Woodrow Wilson

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Woodrow Wilson

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

Woodrow Wilson

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

Woodrow Wilson

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

Woodrow Wilson

In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.

Woodrow Wilson

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Woody Allen

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

Woody Allen

I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.

William Shakespeare

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

William J. Clinton

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

William James

We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.

Will Durant

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

Sarah Palin

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

Saoirse Ronan

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

Samuel Pepys

Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.

William Faulkner

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

Richard M. Nixon

Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.

Ricardo Mayorga

I'm going to give Vargas the chance to cash his last paycheck. I would like to say publicly that Fatty Vargas has always feared me. I conceded to take this fight at 162 pounds because fatty couldn't lose any more weight. I will do Vargas a favor by retiring him in this fight so his family doesn't have to suffer every time he steps in the ring. I'm going to do his wife a favor and not let her cry anymore.

Ricardo Mayorga

I will knock out Vernon Forrest in two rounds whether I have a cigarette or not. I know a lot of people want to see me fight more rounds. So, if HBO wants, they can pick two sparring partners for me to fight after I knock out Forrest. That way, the audience can see me fight 12 rounds.

Richard Rorty

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Rich Franklin

For me honestly I think that fight was lost six weeks before the fight even began

Rich Franklin

I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds

Rich Lowry

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Robert Duvall

The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.