Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Thatcher

We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.

Martin Amis

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

R. A. Salvatore

Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.

Mother Jones

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men

Taraji P. Henson

I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"

John Daly

Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.

Justin Bieber

i will never say never i will fight i will fight till forever make it right whenever you knock me down i will not stay on the ground pick it up and never say never

Joyce Kilmer

What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.

John F. Kennedy

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

Jonathan Maberry

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

Jon Snow

I want to fight for the side that fights for the living. Did I come to the right place?

Jon Stewart

People always say, when did you realize you were funny? And I think it's not that you realize you were funny. It's that you're brain works in a certain way. And I don't think that that's - I think in some respects it's uncontrollable, and you can either accept it and deal with it and hone it or you can try to fight it. And I was too weak to fight it.

Jon Stewart

[President Bush] recently challenged Iraqi soldiers still fighting U.S. troops like so: ... 'My answer is bring 'em on.' For those of you who may be criticizing Bush for acting like a movie cowboy, let me remind you. He's actually acting more like a movie cheerleader.

Julie Burchill

The terrorist attacks were a tragedy for the people who died or were injured, and for their families and friends. For the rest of us, they were a wake-up call as to what type of lunatics we are dealing with. And sleepwalking our way back into ill-sorted, dewy-eyed people personal politics is the last thing we need to set us up for the fight ahead. Come on you liberals, don't give me the morbid pleasure of saying, 'I told you so' again.

Judith Light

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

Judith Orloff

Surrender to life today. Don't fight anything. Just enjoy the flow.

Josh Hutcherson

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

Katherine Dunham

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

Katherine Dunn

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

Lord Acton

The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

Mahesh Babu

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

Mahatma Gandhi

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

Edward de Bono

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.

Charles Hamilton Houston

Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.

Le Corbusier

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

Adela Florence Nicolson

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Adam Levine

I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.

Adam Michnik

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

Ludwig von Mises

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

Fighting unemployment is what it's going to be all about in the next four years,

David Mamet

I've been training in Jiu-jitsu for about six years and I'm very fortunate to live in that world. All the fighters hang out and have lunch together just about every day and trade stories. And I've always been fascinated how in the world of Jiu-jitsu in L.A. everybody in the fight world - cops, special forces, bouncers, stuntmen - connected across different lines.

We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to come back hard. We had to play the whole game out.