Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Charles Stross

Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

Charles Stanley

Fight all your battles on your knees and you win every time.

Charles Spurgeon

A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Sharpton

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Al McGuire

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'

Chris Christie

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

Guillermo Diaz

We started slow, particularly me. I just listened to the coaches, and went through it. I just kept fighting.

Jarkko Nieminen

Olivier just couldn't miss when I had a match point. All I could do was just keep fighting.

Andre Cohen

She's still holding on.... She's very, very sick, but she's still fighting.

Megan Duffy

One thing I know about this team is we're going to keep fighting. Just disappointed that it has to be when we're down 15.

Liz Flooks

We'd get (ahead) and they'd make a run. That's what's great about their team. They kept fighting.

Marc Ward

I don't think we're being weak on fighting. I think you'll see more enforcement because the punishment will fit the offense.

Ron Stevens

I can't get into all that. Obviously, we don't think it's right for him to be fighting. It's up to other jurisdictions to do what they think is right.

Lenny Harris

Keep pushing. Keep fighting. We'll get it done. We have to get it done.

Doug Lipscomb

I take my hat off to Pope. They competed and went down fighting. We did some good things, but there's plenty of room for improvement. We're not quite where I want to be yet.

Donna Shalala

The other thing is, I'm one of the handful of people they have that actually knows how to run something, that's an experienced administrator.

Obie Schramm

The point is to keep these kids safe. Unfortunately, there's always a handful of students drinking, and that makes it hard for everyone. We don't want something terrible to happen.

Michael Rabasca

We're honored that we played well enough to get to this point. The thing that we'll look at is that there's only a handful of teams that have been able to win back-to-back championships. I think that will weigh heavily on our mind.

Loren Thompson

Since it's actually a handful of nuts with no real resources at their command, it's a little hard to see why such imagery is appropriate.

Lynn Coady

Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

Dorn Whitmore

Only a handful said they didn't like what we were doing.

Cheryl Healton

Only a handful of states have used this money for its intended purpose.

Dan Fink

From a scientific standpoint, we are incredibly unique. There's only a handful of places, globally, that can do research like we do.

Jimmy Smith

I always hear it. I just liked the way it set up. They said Jimmy is losing a step that he can't do it anymore. It's been the story of my career. It's always been people saying I couldn't do it. I knew I could do it. You knew I could do it. There's always a handful of people.

Jim Johnson

We're infiltrating runoff back into the water table, keeping pollutants out of the urban streams and holding the runoff back.

Joe Torre

We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.

Steve Bellino

With the inventories where they are, and prices were they are, they don't equate. It's geopolitical tension that's holding us up right now.

Kyle Visser

We're excited. We have hope now. We were holding on to very little hope. That's a big thing for us. We see we can play as well as we can.

Brooke Bingaman

We're in this holding pattern and it's not lifting.

Kurt Eichenwald

I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long.

Brad Henry

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

John Madden

I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.

Chris Cornell

She's known how to walk for about three months but she would only take steps if she was holding onto my finger, ... Now she'll just take off and go anywhere.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Terri Blackstock

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Alfred North Whitehead

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

John Doherty

If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.

Stacy Adams

He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.

Mamie Gummer

L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.

Ciaran Hinds

Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.

Matt Bomer

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Sendhil Mullainathan

You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete.

Dennis Prager

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Oscar Arias

Today, we'll make reality what the polls have been saying.

Rudy Giuliani

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.

Tony Wood

I would urge patrons to go to the polls and vote, ... I think it's important to participate in this process.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is not they who will decide, but we when we go to the polls on Sunday,

John Gutfreund

The media, the polls and our legislatures fortunately have short attention spans.

Herb Sendek

It's early, those polls and rankings are going to change.

Jennifer Duffy

I'm not terribly swayed by polls at this point.

Lech Walesa

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

Nicki Minaj

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Eric Woods

We're showing the film to show the underbelly of the porn industry.

Elma Damon

We're showing growth. It's pretty slow, but it's more up than down.

Brene Brown

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

French Montana

Every time I look at Twitter, there's always somebody showing support.

Adriana Trigiani

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

Joss Whedon

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.

Brene Brown

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

ASAP Ferg

Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I'm saying?

Alan Cooper

Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

Al Purdy

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

David Suzuki

Environmentali sm is really about seeing our place in world in a way that humans have always known up until very recently - that we are part of nature-utterly dependent on the natural world for our well being and survival.

Bryan Stevenson

All of our survival is tied to the survival of everyone,

Catherine Fisher

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Kurt Vonnegut

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

Bear Grylls

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.

Bear Grylls

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Alan Greenspan

The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

Akira Kurosawa

If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'

Akira Kurosawa

Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.

David Shuster

I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.

David Miliband

Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

David Korten

To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system.

David Cross

I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids.

Dave Barry

Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT.

David R. Ellis

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.