Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liam Payne

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

Libba Bray

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

Libba Bray

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Leslie Marmon Silko

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting.

Friedrich Schiller

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Friedrich Schiller

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!

Friedrich Schiller

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

Friedrich Schiller

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

George Galloway

People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.

George Foreman

They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.

George Foreman

Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.

George Foreman

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

George Foreman

I want to keep fighting because it's the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

George Foreman

There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.

Jon M. Chu

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

Jon Meacham

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

Jon Krakauer

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

Jon Foreman

I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.

Jon Foreman

Nothing stays together without a fight.

Jon Foreman

I think of myself as more of a lover rather than a fighter, but sometimes you have to fight for what you love.

Jon Bernthal

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.

Jon Bernthal

Fighting really does reveal everything to the other guy. It's not just about who can beat up to or who's tougher, it's who bullies who and who goes easy on who. You change from opponent, so it's about how you deal with a challenge and how you deal with a guy who you can handle easily.

Joichi Ito

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

Joichi Ito

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Joichi Ito

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Jon Bon Jovi

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

Johnny Bench

Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!

John Yoo

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

Lu Xun

If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!

Louis Leterrier

Whats great about The Avengers is that its the next step. Its not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. Its about superheroes that come together and interact. Its a clash of the egos. You could do Avengers 1 without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.