Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond Aubrac

If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

Vin Diesel

Fight sequence to me isn't just about the athleticism. It so often is about what the emotion that is behind it and how willing you are to really, really challenge that emotion or really take that emotion to that place so you're feeling a certain intensity for the whole time when you're shooting the actual physical scenes.

Viggo Mortensen

I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin Laden, and the vastly outnumbered defenders of Helm's Deep united against the Orcs to the "Coalition of the Willing" fighting the good fight against Muslim hordes, displayed the simplistic, xenophobic, and arrogant worldview that makes the government of the United States feared and mistrusted around the world. The editors claimed they had no space to print my brief letter, which I felt was dishonest and cowardly.

Victoria Pratt

When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

Victoria Pratt

Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

Victor Garber

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

Victor Hugo

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

Victor Hugo

Those who live are those who fight.

Veronica Roth

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

Veronica Roth

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

Veronica Roth

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

Veronica Roth

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.

Viktor E. Frankl

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Usain Bolt

I can't watch a [Floyd] Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting. I used to watch boxing in the [Michael] Tyson era when it was exciting. Now it's all bob and weave, a punch here and there. It is not entertaining.

Susanna Kearsley

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

Susanna Kearsley

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

Suzanne Collins

It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.

Suzanne Collins

And we must fight back! President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that? Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

Suzanne Collins

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

Suzanne Collins

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

Suzanne Collins

When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

Suzanne Collins

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

Suzanne Collins

aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

Suzanne Collins

I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.

Suzanne Collins

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

Taslima Nasrin

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

Taylor Swift

the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.

Stephen Leacock

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Stephen King

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

Stephen King

If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them

Star Jones

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

Stanley Tucci

Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.