Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Keneally

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Raymond Aubrac

If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

Vin Diesel

Fight sequence to me isn't just about the athleticism. It so often is about what the emotion that is behind it and how willing you are to really, really challenge that emotion or really take that emotion to that place so you're feeling a certain intensity for the whole time when you're shooting the actual physical scenes.

Viggo Mortensen

I wrote a letter to the magazine [Time magazine] pointing out that [Richard] Corliss's comparison of Christopher Lee's Saruman to Osama Bin Laden, and the vastly outnumbered defenders of Helm's Deep united against the Orcs to the "Coalition of the Willing" fighting the good fight against Muslim hordes, displayed the simplistic, xenophobic, and arrogant worldview that makes the government of the United States feared and mistrusted around the world. The editors claimed they had no space to print my brief letter, which I felt was dishonest and cowardly.

Victoria Pratt

When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.

Victoria Pratt

Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.

Victor Garber

Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more.

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.

Samantha Power

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

Rumi

Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

Tom Robbins

…not a fighter… an adventurer. He doesn’t attack, he engages; He doesn’t defend, he expands; He doesn’t destroy, he transforms; He doesn’t reject, he explores; ….

Tom Felton

I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good.

Tom Berenger

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March

Steve Scalise

I want to continue doing good work where we can expand opportunities for all Americans. That's what we're fighting for.

Steve King

When the legislation that passed in the farm bill that says that it’s a federal crime to watch animals fight or to induce someone else to watch an animal fight but it’s not a federal crime to induce somebody to watch people fighting, there’s something wrong with the priorities of people that think like that.

Viktor E. Frankl

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Usain Bolt

I can't watch a [Floyd] Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting. I used to watch boxing in the [Michael] Tyson era when it was exciting. Now it's all bob and weave, a punch here and there. It is not entertaining.

Susanna Kearsley

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

Susanna Kearsley

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

Suzanne Collins

It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.