Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mother Jones

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Mother Jones

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

Mother Jones

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

Victor Hugo

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

Victor Hugo

Those who live are those who fight.

Veronica Roth

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

Veronica Roth

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

Veronica Roth

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

Veronica Roth

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.

Richard Bach

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!

Richard Bach

Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome...

Robert Frost

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Rita Mae Brown

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rick Larsen

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

Thomas Huxley

I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

Timothy Garton Ash

Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is quite tough to lose an empire and Russia lost its empire very rapidly and very admirably, that is to say peacefully, it didn't fight.

Thomas Sankara

Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity.

Robert Klein

But I think the other is a little more like bullfighting, a little more daring and although I appreciate good acting and I liked being versatile my whole career, it kept me working.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.

Robert Harris

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

Saul Bellow

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

Saul Bellow

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

Saul Alinsky

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

Sarah Dessen

I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous...

Sandra Bullock

Women should do a lot more fighting. I don't think it's fair that we can't get into a good fight...

Rose Wilder Lane

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

Rooney Mara

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

Roger Scruton

All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.

Robert Townsend

A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.

Robert Quine

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

Sarah McLachlan

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future.