Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Benioff

To shoot a decent fight, you need to cover all the different angles, and it ends up eating a lot of days.

Dave Winer

To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.

David Wong

Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love?

David Ortiz

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

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.

David Mamet

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

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

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

Dani Shapiro

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

Daisaku Ikeda

No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to Hope, to face the future with courage.

Condoleezza Rice

there is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.

Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.

Gary Moore

We need to get roads built, ... We need to get funding fixed for Boone County. I'd much rather see them spend time on those issues than I would fighting off political battles.

Alan Furst

If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel.

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.

Colin Firth

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

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.

Dante Alighieri

A fight every now and again does make life more interesting. Don't ya think?

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.

Dan Millman

The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

Cornel West

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

Cornel West

I would say you have to fight in the life of the mind as well as fight in the streets, as well as fight in the courts, as well as fight in congress and the White House. Every site is a sight of contestation.

Colum McCann

Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.

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.