Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katharine McPhee

I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.

Marianne Williamson

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

Marianne Williamson

As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.

Mike Conaway

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent you in the United States House of Representatives. Together, we will continue fighting to protect our Texas conservative values and the preservation of the America we know and love for future generations to come.

Miguel de Unamuno

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

Nathan Hale

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

Mark Twain

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

Mary Roach

I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I feel I am going to lose my mind. Earlier today, I heard someone say the words, "I felt at one with the divine source of creation." Mary Roach on a conducted tour of Hades. I had to fight the urge to push back my chair and start screaming: STAND BACK! ALL OF YOU! I'VE GOT AN ARTHUR FINDLAY BOX CUTTER! Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

Marsha Norman

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

Marsha Norman

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Mark Mothersbaugh

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

Mark McKinnon

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

Mario Vargas Llosa

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

Nikki Sixx

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

Mother Jones

No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!

Mother Jones

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Mother Jones

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

Mother Jones

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

Mother Teresa

There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.

Paula McLain

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

Philip Gibbs

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

John Muir

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

John Muir

The bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.

John Wilkes Booth

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

John Wayne

When you stop fighting, that's death.

John Wagner

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

John Thune

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

John Sterling

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

John Stossel

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

John Steinbeck

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

John Steinbeck

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.... In the world ruled by tigers with ulcers, rutted by strictured bulls, scavenged by blind jackals.... What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals?

John Slattery

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

John Piper

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.