Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

What's interesting about the wizarding world is when you take physical strength out of the equation, a woman can do magic just as powerfully as a man can do magic. A woman can fight just the same as a man.

J. K. Rowling

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!

H. L. Mencken

[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Larry Brown

I'd have been horrified if we didn't fight back.

I dont think he's as strong as McCline, ... I understand he comes to fight and throws a lot of punches so I have to be ready.

I am very hurt, but very grateful that our fight will continue.

I am worried that he will go back to Liberia and start fighting again. I suspect he is already in Liberia.

Dennis Hastert

I am proud of our president, our troops, and our allies, ... Yes, we are fighting to preserve our national security. But we are also fighting to preserve the universal ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I don't want to fight the Fed. But where are they?

I don't think we can just write off two kids getting into a fight with the nature of our society today. That could come back on us that we knew about it and didn't do anything about it.

Jeff Lacy

He's not a fighter I can overlook at all. He was able to knock out Omar Sheika, a guy who I couldn't knockout, ... Sure, I wanted Calzaghe, but Scott Pemberton is a really good fighter.

Michael Young

He's nasty. I'll guarantee you 30 teams will be fighting over him if he comes over.

He's not guilty and he's going to fight this all the way. He's not guilty.

He's not going to give in lightly to being sick. He's going to fight it hard.

He's got a lot of fight in him,

Andy Murray

He's got a great attitude. He's going to fight for every point.

E. O. Wilson

How long can it stay here? I don't know. But I can tell you we're going to fight very, very hard to keep the team here to try to be competitive with the rest of the league.

How many teams do you know that would like to be here right now? It's hard to be disappointed or frustrated when your team is here fighting for a championship. Yes, we are disappointed with the result, but, overall, I couldn't be happier for this group.

Nick Hornby

I do like to read, but, you know, it's hard, and I do like watching telly, and I do like sport, and reading has to fight for its place within that.

Ian Bell

Come tomorrow, I'm sure the guys will be ready with some ideas to fight it out.

Paul Ryan

Penn students don't fight. They only fight with their lawyers.

Our kids understand. They know where we're at. We've got three home games left, and two games on the road. We're just trying to fight to get better. They're fighting for their lives every game.

Our kids showed a lot of fight and did not give up in the seventh. But you've got to make those routine plays. When we've been in games that mattered, we don't give up. And I'm proud of them for that.

Joe Gibbs

Our guys in the fourth quarter are fighting their guts out. I would hope that they'd start the game like that.

Donald Trump

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

Le Corbusier

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

Michael Vick

When I got hit, it was painful, but I got up and was able to walk, ... I was able to go back out there and fight it out like I always do.

Walter Benjamin

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

Bob Ainsworth

The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.

George Foreman

You've got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you'll just naturally make money doing it.

Wednesday and Thursday, I don't think many people thought he'd be able to go, ... He showed some signs Friday, and we thought maybe he'd take a chance. It just shows what a fighter he is.

We were all set in our mind that we were going to fight to the very end.