Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morihei Ueshiba

Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.

Morihei Ueshiba

Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

Milan Kundera

Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left.

Mike Love

Mankind invents things to fight about.

Marat Safin

I'm not fighting with myself.

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.

Laura Miller

Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

Laura Linney

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

Lance Berkman

I wish I was just a left-handed hitter. It's really tough having to keep both sides sharp, and that's one reason why you don't see switch-hitters hit for that high of an average. You're always fighting one side or the other.

Lance Armstrong

It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction.

Lance Armstrong

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

Lance Armstrong

My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.

Laini Taylor

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

Lisa See

You can't fight your fate...It is predestined.

Lisa Loeb

Stop fighting. Everyone's a person too. And take care of the Earth, please.

Lisa Kleypas

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

John Updike

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

John Updike

Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.

John Sweeney

Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.

John Stuart Mill

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

John Robbins

It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them.

James H. Douglas

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

Larry Holmes

Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

Larry Holmes

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

Larry Holmes

I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies - Poverty, unemployment.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

Kyle Maynard

Everybody is going to have a point in their life when they can’t see any brightness at the end of the tunnel…but there always is…you just have to keep on fighting.

Kyle MacLachlan

I really fight for my privacy.

Liam Payne

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

Libba Bray

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.