Quotes about fighting
fighting government stupidity
In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. Woodrow Wilson
fighting
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
fighting life-is tragic
I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight. Woody Allen
fighting want buying
I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.
fighting giving goes-on
Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow William Shakespeare
fighting medicine hiv
AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease. William J. Clinton
fighting attachment athletic
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape. William James
fighting men society
Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all. Will Durant
fighting economic national-security
We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms. Sarah Palin
fighting years uprising
The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us. Saoirse Ronan
fighting men mind
Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses. Samuel Pepys
fighting survival there-is-hope
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Samuel Fuller
fighting drug wish
Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like. Samuel Hahnemann
fighting thinking important
When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight. Salma Hayek
fighting humanity
In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future -- for everyone.
fighting hands play
The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things. Salman Rushdie
fighting radical conservatism
You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
fighting thank-god bars
You can be deported back to Canada, absolutely, for a shockingly minor infraction. Little bar fight. Next thing you know you are back in Sascatchuan. Which I'm not from, thank God... But it did concern me. Ryan Reynolds
fighting two community
Using trees as a symbol of peace is in keeping with a widespread African tradition. For example, the elders of the Kikuyu carried a staff from the thigi tree that, when placed between two disputing sides, caused them to stop fighting and seek reconciliation. Many communities in Africa have these traditions. Wangari Maathai
fighting land oil
When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.
fighting rights people
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.
fighting men ass
A man is but an ass Who fights in a cuirass W. S. Gilbert
fighting land america
America does not fight for land, glory or riches. Virginia Foxx
fighting helping-others people
My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work out of them. William Cohen
fighting support
Work on what you support rather than fighting what you oppose. Wayne Dyer
fighting enough doing-good
There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get. And in politics, if you don't ask, you don't get at all. Van Jones
fighting people community
People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting people work their way out of poverty without undermining community health, we have a moral obligation to do so.
fighting people poverty
In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.
fighting disrespect creation
Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.
fighting past hands
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
fighting leader environmental
Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?
fighting people trying
Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.
fighting battle shooting
A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded. Tyne Daly