Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertolt Brecht

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Benjamin Haydon

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

Bernard Hopkins

There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.

Bernard Hopkins

This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.

Bernard Hopkins

I didn't need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I've always fought the best and I've always wanted to prove myself to the best.

Bernard Hopkins

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

Cecile Richards

So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.

Cedric Richmond

Ive introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things.

Carol Moseley Braun

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

Carlos Fuentes

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

C. S. Lewis

Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.

John Baldwin

We want to put our mark on the sport and push pairs figure skating to next level.

We have security in the building. No alarms were sounded. We're trying to figure out what happened there. There was no forced entry, no vandalism.

We have to get better. This is a long season and you fight every week to win games and get better. And obviously we're not getting better on punt returns.

We have to focus on the next game and not think about UAB or the tournament. We got them down there so they're going to be ready to fight us here. We have to get ready for UCF.

We have never had a fight with the Serbian people.

Colin White

We're fighting for points every night. We gave four points up (in the losses to Pittsburgh and the Islanders) and that always hurts at this time of the year. We can't get them back, we just have to keep moving forward.

Olli Jokinen

We're fighting for our lives. The last two or three weeks we've been able to win some games. Every point is huge for us.

Jaromir Jagr

We're fighting for first place in our division, so it's huge.

We're fighting for a playoff spot, where Florida had such a good start that they know they're going to make the playoffs. We're fighting for our lives.

Luke Walton

We're fighting for a playoff position and just to make the playoffs.

Jeffrey Sachs

We're fighting all the wrong wars in this country.

Jeff Zucker

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

We're better than we've been since I've been here, but we're also more disappointed, because we have the talent to be over .500. You just have to stick with it and fight through it. Who knows how good this team can be or where we'll finish up?

Kenneth Choi

When I work, I like to just kind of stay quiet, stay to myself. I like to walk around a lot and figure out what's gonna happen in the scene and try to get my head straight.

Gary Bettman

to pick a fight with the union on this issue at this point.

We're putting the petition on our Web site by the end of the week. We're having a fight with the Secretary of State because we want to start (gathering signatures) at 7 p.m. (Tuesday) after the polls close.

We knew we were going to have to fight each other eventually,

We let the judge figure out the rest of it.

We knew they were a good team and they could make a run. We know that if good teams are going to make runs, then we have to make runs to win. We have to keep fighting, and that's why I'm proud of my team, because we kept fighting throughout this game.

We lacked that intensity the last 2 minutes because we figured the game was over. We've got to finish games better than that.

We know how important this weekend is, not only for the team's confidence, but also for our playoff outlook. This weekend will go a long way towards determining if we're up near the top fighting it out, or scrapping for a berth at the end of the season.

Don Cheadle

If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?