Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joichi Ito

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

Jon Bon Jovi

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

Johnny Bench

Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games--if you count exhibitions -- and I'm overpaid!

John Yoo

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

Lu Xun

If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!

Louis Leterrier

Whats great about The Avengers is that its the next step. Its not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. Its about superheroes that come together and interact. Its a clash of the egos. You could do Avengers 1 without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

Lord Acton

I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

John Christopher

You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

John Ciardi

At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.

John Breaux

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

John Bruton

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.

John Brown

I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.

Luther Burbank

Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.

Lupe Fiasco

If you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

Lupe Fiasco

True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

Lupe Fiasco

In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

John Cheever

Now working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch.

John Cena

Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!

John Cena

I haven't backed down from a fight in my life, and I won't start tonight.

John Bolton

Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to withdraw from Afghanistan no matter what the cost to the United States or those in Afghanistan fighting to remain free.

John Boyne

He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

John Boehner

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

You could look at it two different ways. You could look at it as being relieved, we're moving on. But for guys like me, the way I look at it, it's frustrating because you'd rather find a way to get back on the ice and figure it out.

Jeffrey Sachs

You can't fight the greatest pandemic for years without resources,

You can't fight Mother Nature with something like this.

Allan Ray

You can't take anything away from Arizona. They are a great team. They kind of remind me of us. They fight and don't give up.

Orson Scott Card

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Zach Randolph

You got to put good players around. That starts from the top. We've got to get good players around. . . . It's for (team president) Steve Patterson and (general manager) John Nash to figure that out.

You have to really do the math and figure out a good location.

You get as many G's (forces of gravity) as a fighter jet pilot.

You figure you've got about 175 meters out of 400 straight into the wind. He ran pretty good.