Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

Rob Lowe

Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.

Ricky Hatton

I'm going to say hello to two friends who I've shut out of my life for the past 10 weeks while I trained the hardest I've ever done for a fight. So welcome back Mr Guinness and Mr Dom Perignon.

Richard M. Daley

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

Richard M. Nixon

Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we have interests, if they are ready to fight a fire, should be able to count on us to furnish the hose and water.

Ricardo Mayorga

I'm going to give Vargas the chance to cash his last paycheck. I would like to say publicly that Fatty Vargas has always feared me. I conceded to take this fight at 162 pounds because fatty couldn't lose any more weight. I will do Vargas a favor by retiring him in this fight so his family doesn't have to suffer every time he steps in the ring. I'm going to do his wife a favor and not let her cry anymore.

Ricardo Mayorga

I will knock out Vernon Forrest in two rounds whether I have a cigarette or not. I know a lot of people want to see me fight more rounds. So, if HBO wants, they can pick two sparring partners for me to fight after I knock out Forrest. That way, the audience can see me fight 12 rounds.

Richard Rorty

At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.

Rich Franklin

For me honestly I think that fight was lost six weeks before the fight even began

Rich Franklin

I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds

Rich Lowry

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Robert Duvall

The one you fight with the most is always the one who’s most like you.

Robert Byrd

I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

Rivers Cuomo

I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.

Roald Dahl

careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

Richard Preston

You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

Richard Pryor

I'm slower and some days are better than others, but I'm a fighter.

Richard Rohr

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

Richard Le Gallienne

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Tupac Shakur

I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight.

Tupac Shakur

Don't live to fight, fight to live.

Tupac Shakur

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

Tupac Shakur

We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back

Tupac Shakur

Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?

Venus Williams

People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.

Vera Farmiga

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

Vanessa Hudgens

You'll always have to fight for what you want. Definitely crossing over and being able to tackle these grittier parts was a challenge, but I feel like I've done it! It's a whole new chapter.

Vance Havner

The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.

Ulysses S. Grant

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

Richard Dawkins

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Tony Snow

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.

Steve Zahn

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.

Veronica Roth

Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.