Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.

Vladimir Kramnik

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

Vivienne Westwood

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

Vivienne Westwood

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.

Vincent Van Gogh

Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

Vincent Van Gogh

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

Vladimir Lenin

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

Vladimir Lenin

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

Will McDonough

I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.

Walter Annenberg

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Virginia Woolf

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

Virginia Woolf

Thinking is my fighting.

Werner Herzog

You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

Wayne Pacelle

Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.

Wayne Pacelle

People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight.

Wayne Pacelle

We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur.... We want Americans to eat fewer animals

Wallace Shawn

You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you.

Walker Percy

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

Samuel Smiles

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Samuel Fuller

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

Samuel Hahnemann

Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.

Salma Hayek

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

Salman Rushdie

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

Ryan Reynolds

You can be deported back to Canada, absolutely, for a shockingly minor infraction. Little bar fight. Next thing you know you are back in Sascatchuan. Which I'm not from, thank God... But it did concern me.

Wangari Maathai

Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff from the thigi tree that, when placed between two disputing sides, caused them to stop fighting and seek reconciliation. Many communities in Africa have these traditions.

Wangari Maathai

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

Wangari Maathai

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

W. S. Gilbert

A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass

Virginia Foxx

America does not fight for land, glory or riches.

William Cohen

My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work out of them.

Wayne Dyer

Work on what you support rather than fighting what you oppose.

Van Jones

In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.

Van Jones

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.