Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

We`ll fight terrorists in Iraq, we'll fight them across the world, and we will stay in the fight until the fight is won.

George W. Bush

In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras.

George Santayana

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

George Santayana

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

George Orwell

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

George Meredith

It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, never agree! Parson and Doctor!--don't they love rarely Fighting the devil in other men's fields! Stand up yourself and match him fairly: Then see how the rascal yields!

George Sand

When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

George S. Patton

You fight like you train.

Jeff Merkley

I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Greeks have to know that they are not alone ... Those who are fighting for the survivor of Greece inside the Euro area are deeply harmed by the impression floating around in the Greek public opinion that Greece is a victim. Greece is a member of the EU and the euro. I want Greece to be a constructive member of the Union because the EU is also benefiting from Greece.

Jerry Seinfeld

The best piece of advice I received before I got married was, "Be careful what you say when you're in a fight, because it could stick in someone's head." I don't think I've ever said anything I really regretted. I'm very sympathetic to women. I've really studied wife-ology, and I know you've got to figure out the feelings. Deal with the feelings.

Jenson Button

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

Jeffrey Gitomer

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

Jeff Lacy

You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles

Jesse Helms

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

Jesse Jackson

Fighting disparities is very significant.

Jesse Jackson

When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.

Jennifer Pahlka

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

Jean Chretien

I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.

James Carville

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

Jacqueline Carey

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

Jacqueline Novogratz

By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

Jackie Robinson

Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?

George Eliot

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

George Eliot

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Geoffrey Holder

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

Frank James

I want results when I fight.

Frank Grillo

Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

Frank Capra

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

George Herbert

A full belly neither fights nor flies well.

Chris Hedges

I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

Christine Feehan

It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose.