Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emun Elliott

I'm still fighting for parts - it's not like I'm sitting with a big pile of scripts putting them in a 'yes' and 'no' pile.

Jan Egeland

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.

Janis Joplin

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

Janet Suzman

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

Burt Ward

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.

Cesar Chavez

If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free.

Carson McCullers

In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of they hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is not. Now is the time to act and to act quickly. Fight cunning with cunning and might with might

Carl Zimmer

The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.

Carl von Clausewitz

But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition, their numbers have been diminished, their strength and their morale are drained, and possibly their courage has vanished as well. As an organic whole, quite apart from their loss in numbers, they are far from being what they were before the action; and thus the amount of reserves spent is an accurate measure on the loss of morale.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

Alain de Botton

Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

Alain de Botton

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Al Franken

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

Charles James Fox

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

Charles Kennedy

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

Charles Kingsley

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

Charles Kingsley

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Channing Tatum

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.

Channing Tatum

It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.

Channing Tatum

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

Channing Tatum

I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.

Channing Tatum

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.

Channing Tatum

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

Billie Holiday

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

Billy Bob Thornton

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

Eckhart Tolle

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.

Eckhart Tolle

You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of consciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.

Elie Wiesel

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Elie Wiesel

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

Edward Said

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Edward Snowden

The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any other nation out there. And when there's such a low barrier to entering the domain of cyber-attacks we're starting a fight that we can't win.

Edward Snowden

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.