Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cesar Chavez

If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free.

Carson McCullers

In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of they hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is not. Now is the time to act and to act quickly. Fight cunning with cunning and might with might

Carl Zimmer

The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.

Carl von Clausewitz

But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition, their numbers have been diminished, their strength and their morale are drained, and possibly their courage has vanished as well. As an organic whole, quite apart from their loss in numbers, they are far from being what they were before the action; and thus the amount of reserves spent is an accurate measure on the loss of morale.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

Alain de Botton

Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

Alain de Botton

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Al Franken

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

Charles James Fox

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

Charles Kennedy

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

Charles Kingsley

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

Charles Kingsley

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Channing Tatum

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.

Channing Tatum

It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.

Channing Tatum

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

Channing Tatum

I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.

Channing Tatum

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.

Channing Tatum

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

Billie Holiday

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I like to keep my girlish figure

Billy Bob Thornton

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

Robin Li

I refused to do a lot on mobile Internet until around 2009. But because we didn't start early, it took us some time to figure out what's the important thing, what's the most relevant thing for Baidu.

Bruce Forsyth

I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.

Brigham Young

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

Brigham Young

When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

Brian Posehn

I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.

Brendon Burchard

The ultimate secret to growth is finding something worth fighting for

Bradley Whitford

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.

Barry Goldwater

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

Barbara Boxer

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

Barbara Boxer

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable

Arleigh Burke

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

Antonin Scalia

It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.