Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Julie Powell

There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.

Julian Fantino

Coordinating our efforts and sharing information and expertise is a great way to step up our fight against violent criminals. We are determined to make Ontario communities safer for law abiding citizens.

Joyce Meyer

If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

Pancho Villa

I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.

Paolo Bacigalupi

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory.

Owen Hart

The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.

P. C. Cast

Its more than a simple belief that there is good and that it should fight the evil in the world. It's a personification of Light and Darkness at their most elemental level, as forces that are so absorbed with themselves that one cannot exist without the other though they constantly try to consume one another. One of the earliest repersentations of Light and Darkness was of Light being a massive black bull and Darkness being an enormous white bull.

P. C. Cast

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

P. C. Cast

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself

Paul McCartney

Fight for the right to live in freedom!

Paul McCartney

Many years ago, I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realized, 'I am killing him?all for the passing pleasure it brings me.' And something inside me clicked. I realized as I watched him fight for breath, that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

Peter Greenaway

If you never lived out your sexuality - it's a great force, and if you try to fight it, what does that create? Energy: positive and negative, self-loathing.

Paullina Simons

Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?" Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.

Paullina Simons

There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

Mel Gibson

Zionists are the source of destructions, I wish I can fight against them.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

A man should orient his will and all his works to God and having only God in view go forward unafraid, not thinking, am I right or am I wrong? One who worked out all the chances before starting his first fight would never fight at all. And if, going to someplace, we must think how to set the front foot down, we shall never get there. It is our duty to do the next thing: go straight on, that is the right way.

Martin Amis

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

Pope Benedict XVI

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

James Larkin

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

Joe Pantoliano

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

Joe Nichols

I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'

Joe Flanigan

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

Joe Frazier

Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

Joe Frazier

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

Joe Frazier

I loved fighting... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'

Joe Frazier

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

Joan Jett

Something happens, you can't even put your finger on it, and then you don't quite feel the same way anymore. All of a sudden, there's fights or something and you are going "who is this person?" I've seen this happen to other people and it has happened to me.

Jim Lampley

The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.

Jim Morrison

People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

Eric Taylor

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.