Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dakota Goyo

I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.

Dale Carnegie

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

Creed Bratton

I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would come on the radio, and I'm pounding the dash and the rock and roll will inspire me to keep going. It inspires me. It's true.

Colin Powell

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

Colin Powell

Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Cynthia Nixon

I met this woman, I fell in love with her, and I'm a public figure.

Corrine Brown

As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

Cory Monteith

I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were cool and dress how they dressed, talk how they talked, do whatever they were into. This led to a period of drugs and anchohol. When his family gave him an ultimatum to get clean or they'd report him to the police Corey said, "I was done fighting myself. I finally said, "I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.

Cory Booker

Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

Cory Doctorow

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

Cory Doctorow

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Clive Owen

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

Clint Eastwood

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

e. e. cummings

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

e. e. cummings

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

e. e. cummings

And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world- unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

e. e. cummings

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

Dustin Hoffman

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

Douglas Hofstadter

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

Douglas Coupland

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.

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.