Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

Becca Fitzpatrick

That was a good fight back in the gym,” he said. “But I think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed up his forearms, and I could see his muscles working as he punched buttons. He was tall and lean and hard, and I wouldn't have been surprised if under his clothes he bore several scars, souvenirs from street fights and other reckless behavior. Not that I wanted a look under his clothes.

Barry McCaffrey

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

We never wanted it to come to this, ... but we figured it was going to.

We never lost that will to win -- the guys just kept on fighting.

Billy Corgan

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

Billy Corgan

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

Bill Crawford

You can't fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.

Bhagat Singh

Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.

C. S. Lewis

Christianity is a fighting religion.

C. S. Lewis

For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God 'made up out of His head' as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.

C. S. Lewis

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

C. S. Lewis

Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

Carrie Brownstein

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.

Carrie Underwood

I'm fighting a losing battle here: I'm trying to lose some weight. I love chocolate; that's one of my biggest downfalls. I haven't gotten a whole lot of chocolate, thank goodness, because I'd probably be about 300 pounds.

Carl Reiner

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Carl Reiner

When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

Bill Vaughan

The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life.

I think they use statistics and figures that are misleading, and sometimes they are just plain erroneous.

Sam Cooke

I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.

I think the U.S. realizes in some way that they're picking fights they don't need to have.

It is a thrill to be publishing the autobiography of a truly iconic figure whose life story will be of interest to millions of people around the world.

O. Henry

It is a political law of life that those who think they are going to lose fight like steers,

It is an indicative figure at this point in time,

Cristie Kerr

I think there are still some things they need to work out in the formula. It's new, so you have to figure there will be some tweaking involved to make sure it's a valid ranking.

Shane Smith

I think there are so many problems in the world today, we have to figure out how to fix them rather than point fingers at each other.

I thought we were fighting for an important principle.

Greg Biffle

Just had to dig, fight real hard to get back, to get past all those cars. Once I got there, my tires were used up,

Just a competitor. When we put him out there on the hill, he knows what he's going to do. He's going to go out there and fight you.

Jeff's our leader and when we saw him come back quick after being knocked to the turf, it fired us up. It put a little fight in our game.

Dom Capers

Jerome has really been giving us a spark. When you are fighting through what we are fighting through, you are looking to try to make plays any way you can.

Frank Darabont

I wrote a script, Steven loved it, wanted to shoot it this year. George didn't love it, it got sort of lost between two conflicting opinions and now I think they're trying to figure out what, if anything, to do from here,