Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Hatton

I'm going to say hello to two friends who I've shut out of my life for the past 10 weeks while I trained the hardest I've ever done for a fight. So welcome back Mr Guinness and Mr Dom Perignon.

Richard M. Daley

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

Richard M. Nixon

Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.

Ricardo Mayorga

I'm going to give Vargas the chance to cash his last paycheck. I would like to say publicly that Fatty Vargas has always feared me. I conceded to take this fight at 162 pounds because fatty couldn't lose any more weight. I will do Vargas a favor by retiring him in this fight so his family doesn't have to suffer every time he steps in the ring. I'm going to do his wife a favor and not let her cry anymore.

Ricardo Mayorga

I will knock out Vernon Forrest in two rounds whether I have a cigarette or not. I know a lot of people want to see me fight more rounds. So, if HBO wants, they can pick two sparring partners for me to fight after I knock out Forrest. That way, the audience can see me fight 12 rounds.

Richard Rorty

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Rich Franklin

For me honestly I think that fight was lost six weeks before the fight even began

Rich Franklin

I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds

Rich Lowry

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Robert Duvall

The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.

Robert Byrd

I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

Rivers Cuomo

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

Roald Dahl

careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

Richard Preston

You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

Richard Rohr

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

Richard Le Gallienne

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Tupac Shakur

I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight.

Tupac Shakur

Don't live to fight, fight to live.

Tamora Pierce

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.

Sylvia Pankhurst

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Walmart is committed to fighting hunger in America every day.

Roy Moore

The time has come to recover the valiant courage of our forefathers, who understood that faith and freedom are inseparable, and that they are worth fighting for.

Roy Keane

If it had come to a fight, Patrick [Vieira] could probably have killed me.

Ron Dellums

I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.

Rollo May

Vanity and narcissism — the compulsive need to be admired and praised — undermine one's courage, for one then fights on someone else's conviction rather than one's own.

Rollo May

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

Rollo May

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

Samantha Power

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Rumi

Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

Tom Felton

I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good.

Tom Berenger

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March

Steve Chabot

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

Sri Chinmoy

I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.