Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Monroe

If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

James McAvoy

I've been in a few fights and I know what it's like to get punched in the face.

James Macdonald

This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there's no quick solution. If you think it's taking too long, remember, God is with you.

Taylor Momsen

I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.

Stafford Cripps

Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription being proposed or introduced. Thus would be provided a most favourable political platform upon which to fight the National Government.

Soren Kierkegaard

The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.

Stephenie Meyer

How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much?

Stephenie Meyer

He's like a drug for you, Bella." His voice was still gentle, not at all critical. "I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. but I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun." The corner of my mouth turned up in a wistful half-smile. "I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

Stephenie Meyer

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

Stephenie Meyer

I couldn‘t make sense of the mess in my head. Diego was dead, and that was the main thing, the devastating thing. Other than that, the fight was over, my coven had lost and my enemies had won. But my dead coven was full of people who would have loved to watch me burn, and my enemies were speaking to me kindly when they had no reason to.

Stephenie Meyer

I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

Stephenie Meyer

When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.

Stephenie Meyer

Saving her life was the one acceptable thing I'd done since I met her. The one thing that I was not ashamed of. The one and only thing that made me glad I existed at all. I'd been fighting to keep her alive since the first moment I'd caught her scent.

Stephen Breyer

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Stephen Chbosky

The fights are always the same

Stephen Colbert

I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.

Sonia Sotomayor

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

Thomas Harris

Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.

Tim Ryan

It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to fight that battle is gone. Without Louisiana and Mississippi working together, Louisiana might have gotten a lot less than that. That's just the reality of politics.

Thomas Keneally

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Raymond Aubrac

If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

Vin Diesel

Fight sequence to me isn't just about the athleticism. It so often is about what the emotion that is behind it and how willing you are to really, really challenge that emotion or really take that emotion to that place so you're feeling a certain intensity for the whole time when you're shooting the actual physical scenes.

Russell B. Long

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

Roz Chast

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people.

Rose McGowan

People get so burned out on hearing about sexism, but you know what? I would love to burn out on it. I would love to never talk about that again, but until we're all equal I shall have to fight, and remain fighting.

Ronda Rousey

The way that I like to fight is I like to paint myself into a corner and so the only way is for me to win.

Ronda Rousey

I am vulnerable; that's why I fight.

Ronda Rousey

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

Trish Stratus

Oh my God, you're serious. Honey, I am a six time Women's Champion, if you get into the ring with me it will not be for a Lingerie Pillow Fight, it will not be to shoot t-shirts. If you get into the ring with me I will end your career just like that. Are you sure that's what you want?

Travis Kalanick

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.

Travis Fimmel

[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines.

Rick Riordan

Now fight me! For today thee House of Hades will be called the saviors of Olympus.