Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Jeff Greenfield

Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.

Gina Carano

A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.

Fred Hampton

Were going to fight racism not with racism, but were going to fight with solidarity. We say were not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but were going to fight it with socialism.

Greg Rusedski

I just look back on my season [2004] as a year where I've had to prove myself. I've had to fight all the way through to the end.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.

If I get it (the touchdown record), great. Hopefully I'll get it this weekend. But more important, we need to get the win because we're fighting for the playoffs.

Michael Young

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

Richard Paul Evans

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Richard Preston

You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

Richard Rohr

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

Richard Le Gallienne

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Tupac Shakur

I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight.

Tupac Shakur

Don't live to fight, fight to live.

Tupac Shakur

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

Tupac Shakur

We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back

Tupac Shakur

Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?

Venus Williams

People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.

Vera Farmiga

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

Vanessa Hudgens

You'll always have to fight for what you want. Definitely crossing over and being able to tackle these grittier parts was a challenge, but I feel like I've done it! It's a whole new chapter.

Vance Havner

The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.

Ulysses S. Grant

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

Richard Dawkins

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Robin Hobb

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Robert Reischauer

They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.

Robert Reich

Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

Robert Reich

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

Robert Townsend

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

Robert Quine

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

Sarah McLachlan

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.

Samuel Johnson

It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.