Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michael Young

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

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.

Joe Gibbs

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

Le Corbusier

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

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.

Abbie Hoffman

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

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 Rapp

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, "well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct".

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.

We had enough race car, just not enough time. We started off tight, and we've been fighting it in our practices. We still have some work to do on it.

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

David James Elliott

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

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.

Darrell Royal

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.

Dani Shapiro

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

Billy Graham

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

Meryl Streep

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

Luke Scott

I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.

Gray Davis

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

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.

Clarence Thomas

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

Clayton Moore

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.

Clay Guida

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

Claude Monet

I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.

Daphne Oz

The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.

Cliff Stearns

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

Cliff Martinez

If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.