Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Stroud

I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

Kevin Bacon

The hardest gig there is in entertainment is to be the lead in an hour show, especially if it's a show that's blood and guts and fighting. It's rough. I love to work, but to do something different is really exciting.

Kenneth Kaunda

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

Kelley Armstrong

I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.

Kelley Armstrong

The three "F"s of being a werewolf, Feeding, Fighting, and...Reproduction

Kelley Armstrong

Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and... reproduction.

Kelley Armstrong

Tell me when you want to pick it up again." "Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight." "I'll do that. Lunch?

Kelley Armstrong

You wanna fight?" I asked. He looked up at me and, for just a second, hesitated, then said, "Yeah. I do." "Well, I'll save you the trouble. You win.

Kay Granger

In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.

Kathy Reichs

Today he wore a burnt-orange shirt, black pants, and a tie that looked like a street fight at the south end of the color wheel.

Khaled Hosseini

In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban and the restrictions they were imposing on the Afghan people, most notably women.At some point in the story, there was a casual reference to them having banned the game of kite fighting. This detail struck a personal chord with me, as I had grown up in Kabul flying kite with my friends.

Kesha

Making my last record, Warrior, was a pretty miserable process, and it wore my spirit down. I was fighting like hell to keep my whole irreverent essence and everything raw and visceral that I stand for in it, but in the end I was promoting something that wasn't the animal I wanted it to be. I decided to face my problem head-on.

Helen Fisher

When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

We can be under the power of a spell, but we must overcome such a power; we must liberate ourselves from evil. Everyone can fight.

Henry George

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

Helmut Kohl

The future will belong to the Germans... ...when we build the House of Europe. In the next two years, we will make the process of European integration irreversible. This is a really big battle but it is worth the fight.

Heather Wilson

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

Manny Pacquiao

It's important for me to win the fight, but it's not the most important thing. The most important thing is to show people who spend their hard-earned money that they can be entertained by the way I fight.

Manny Pacquiao

I am very happy that Floyd Mayweather and I can give the fans the fight they have wanted for so many years. They have waited long enough and they deserve it. It is their mandate. It is an honor to be part of this historic event. I dedicate this fight to all the fans who willed this fight to happen and, as always, to bring glory to the Philippines and my fellow Filipinos around the world.

Manny Pacquiao

My concern is what fight we can give to the fans. My first concern as a boxer is to try hard and give a good fight for the fans.

Manny Pacquiao

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

Manny Pacquiao

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

Manny Pacquiao

It's very relaxing for me to sing. It's a good break from the hard training and the fighting.

Manny Pacquiao

I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.

Malcolm Wallop

I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

Malcolm Mclaren

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

Malcolm X

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

Malcolm X

They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

Malcolm X

We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

Mahatma Gandhi

Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.

Mahatma Gandhi

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Mahatma Gandhi

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

Mahatma Gandhi

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?