Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Welles

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.

Oriana Fallaci

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he’s fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose..

Olympia Snowe

Ive never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

Omar Bongo

The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

Omar Bongo

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

Olivia De Havilland

Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?

Oliver Sacks

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?

Olga Korbut

I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.

Olga Kurylenko

No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

O. J. Simpson

If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.

Octavia Butler

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Octavio Paz

To fight evil is to fight ourselves.

Novala Takemoto

There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle

Novak Djokovic

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

Novak Djokovic

When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, ‘great fight,’ and that’s all.

Emilie Autumn

If you're going to die, then die. If you are going to live, then fight.

Ellen Malcolm

EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.

Ellen Goodman

I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.

Eric Roberts

I'm really good with fighting with my feet.

Eric Schlosser

I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair and fight through the difficult patches. As long as you're at the desk, and you're willing to fight it out, eventually the right words will come.

Eric Schmidt

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.

Epictetus

Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.

Joseph Alsop

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

Joseph Barbera

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

Jose Maria Aznar

There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

Jose Mourinho

If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this

Jordin Sparks

Everybody can relate to feeling hopeless, at some point in their life, and everybody can relate to fighting for something that's worth fighting for, and everybody can relate to a person in their life that makes them go, "I don't know why you're here right now," but then, at the end of the day, realizing you'd do anything for them.

Jorge Luis Borges

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Jorge Luis Borges

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

Joni Eareckson Tada

This is the only time in history when I get to fight for God. This is the only part of my eternal story when I am actually in the battle. Once I die, I’ll be in celebration mode in a glorified body in a whole different set of circumstances. But this is my limited window of opportunity, and I’m going to fight the good fight for all I’m worth.