Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barney Frank

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

Audre Lorde

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

Arnold J. Toynbee

My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'

Antonio Tarver

Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship.

Antonio Tarver

I'm fighting the very best and I'm beating the very best. I'm looking to knock everybody out.

Antonio Tarver

This fight is more about what Roy Jones lost than what I took

Antony Starr

I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like fighting. I certainly don't, myself. But it's always interesting to work on a shows where there's so much violence, as a part of the world.

We always figured we'd be able to score. It didn't happen for us (Saturday) and we live to fight another day.

Willie Randolph

We always fight back. We've been that way the whole year. We don't hang our heads about anything; we try to get back in it as much as we can.

Diablo Cody

I've never even seen a great set fight or a great set meltdown. I seem to always be on these incredibly relaxed sets.

Denzel Washington

I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith.

Denis Waitley

The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.

Deborah Mailman

When I see a role I want, I fight for it.

Diego Corrales

I played a lot of the original Fight Night. I think the depiction of Trinidad in the game was awesome.

Diego Maradona

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

Dick Clark

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

Dennis Kucinich

In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.

Dennis Kucinich

We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

Dennis Miller

What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?

Deepak Chopra

Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument. If you do this consistently - if you stop fighting and resisting - you will fully experience the present, which is a gift. Someone once told me, "The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called 'the present'."

Edward Snowden

The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.

Edward Furlong

I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.

Chinua Achebe

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

Chinua Achebe

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Chief Joseph

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

China Mieville

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Chiang Kai-shek

Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.

Chiang Kai-shek

China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.

Chester Bennington

I don't go out and pick fights.

Cher

In my personal life I'm not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man's world, I'm really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I'm willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

When you fight against your own weaknesses, there's something embarrassing about it.

Charles Lamb

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

Charlaine Harris

She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.