Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tavis Smiley

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

Taraji P. Henson

I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"

Tara Brach

In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. This place and inner state are called his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds his querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From the matador's perspective, at this point the bull is truly dangerous, for he has tapped into his power.

Tallulah Bankhead

Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

Suzy Kassem

I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.

Swami Vivekananda

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

Swami Vivekananda

So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God forms or symbols , names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere , if he really wants to reach the truth , he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.

Swami Vivekananda

It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.

Tony Parsons

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

Tony Benn

Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.

Tony Abbott

You cannot win an election without a fight

Rory Stewart

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

Ron Perlman

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

Romain Grosjean

You never want to concede a place, but when youre leading the race or fighting for a podium position, you can find ways to make your car very wide!

Susan Sarandon

It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking for fights on marijuana. No one dies from marijuana intoxication. And no one should be jailed for possessing marijuana.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Losing isn't as bad as not fighting at all.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

Susan Butcher

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

Sugar Ray Robinson

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five

Sugar Ray Leonard

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable

Sugar Ray Leonard

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end

Sugar Ray Leonard

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail.

Sugar Ray Leonard

If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

Sugar Ray Leonard

The only way for a fighter to get back in shape is to fight his way back.

Sugar Ray Leonard

My intention was to fight Durán ASAP because I knew Durán's habits. I knew he would indulge himself, he'd gain 40–50 lbs and then sweat it off to make 147.

Sugar Ray Leonard

My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.

Studs Terkel

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

Stewart Udall

I dont remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

Stewart Brand

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

Steve Chabot

The liberals are fighting so hard whenever President Bush appoints any federal judges.

Sri Chinmoy

I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.