Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

Charles Bukowski

We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.

Charles Bukowski

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

Charles Bukowski

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

Bob Filner

The FAA's job is to figure out a way to make the airspace work,

The F-22 does more than any other fighter has ever done.

Dick Vermeil

We've still got a ways to go. Obviously, (the new players) have made a contribution. Sometimes they make a contribution with their presence as well as their performance because they motivate other guys and they make other people fight a little stronger for their position within the roster.

Bruce Rauner

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it,

Bruce Springsteen

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it's something that you fight for.

Brian K. Vaughan

Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over. Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group? Gert: Not exactly. Pacifists are like vegans, I'm more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.

Brian Jacques

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

Brenda Strong

It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.

Brendan Behan

When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.

Brenda Ueland

Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.

Brad Meltzer

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Brad Pitt

How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!

Brad Pitt

The things you own end up owning you.

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Jane Haddam

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Jane Jacobs

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

Jane Goodall

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Jane Goodall

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

Jan Ullrich

To me there's no doubt I will be fighting for victory.

James Van Der Beek

I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further

Ken Marino

I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.

Antonio Tarver

Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship.

Antonio Tarver

I'm fighting the very best and I'm beating the very best. I'm looking to knock everybody out.

Antonio Tarver

This fight is more about what Roy Jones lost than what I took

Antony Starr

I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like fighting. I certainly don't, myself. But it's always interesting to work on a shows where there's so much violence, as a part of the world.

We always figured we'd be able to score. It didn't happen for us (Saturday) and we live to fight another day.

Willie Randolph

We always fight back. We've been that way the whole year. We don't hang our heads about anything; we try to get back in it as much as we can.

Diablo Cody

I've never even seen a great set fight or a great set meltdown. I seem to always be on these incredibly relaxed sets.

Denzel Washington

I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith.