Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pushkin

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind.

Wednesday and Thursday, I don't think many people thought he'd be able to go, ... He showed some signs Friday, and we thought maybe he'd take a chance. It just shows what a fighter he is.

We were all set in our mind that we were going to fight to the very end.

We battled and battled and battled and finally got a point or two ahead. That took a lot out of us, but my kids kept fighting and kept playing hard. We were in it all the way until the last minute.

Aaron Levie

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

A. K. Antony

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

A. J. McLean

Vulnerability and me go hand and hand now. I try to put myself first so that I can take care of my family so I try not to fight vulnerability as much now.

Skrillex

I was never really a DJ... I just kinda figured it all out at once as I started to tour. I was making music and producing and I just had to start to DJ as I got more into touring.

Abbie Hoffman

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

Abbie Hoffman

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

Aeschylus

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

Agatha Christie

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

Agatha Christie

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

Adriana Lima

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

Adrian Mitchell

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Adela Florence Nicolson

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Adam Rapp

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, "well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct".

Adam Levine

I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.

Adam Michnik

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

Abraham Cahan

You must never tire fighting Satan.

Abraham Lincoln

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

We stayed in it and we kept fighting back and fighting back. We missed some free throws down the stretch we would like to have had. But this was a playoff game, with a playoff atmosphere.

Alex Sanchez

You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?

Alex Rodriguez

I’m fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don’t defend myself, no one else will.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Religion itself cannot but be dynamic. In order to combat modern materialistic mores, to fight nihilism and egotism, religion must also develop, must be flexible in its forms, and it must have a correlation with the cultural forms of the epoch.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.

Ang Lee

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

Damon Albarn

I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.

When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

Charlie White

It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

Albert Schweitzer

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.