Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.

Clarence Thomas

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

Clayton Moore

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.

Clay Guida

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

Clay Guida

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

Colin Firth

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

Claude Monet

I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love.

Dante Alighieri

A fight every now and again does make life more interesting. Don't ya think?

Hill Harper

With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I really fight hard to make things film where they're supposed to be filmed. If something is supposed to be in New York, then it has to be in New York.

We obviously needed this. It woke us up, and now we need to fight 'til the end.

We ordered 500 bibs and figured we were way optimistic.

While sentiment is so strong, it would be foolish to fight the trend in prices.

With a game like today, you feel that life has just ended. But there's more games left to play. I've got to figure out how to make my kids get better.

Robert Crais

I don't think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I'm frankly scared to. I figured out a long time ago that if I tried to guess the audience, it would be like me trying to guess which stocks to buy.

Ronda Rousey

I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.

Ruth Reichl

The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.

Phillips Brooks

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

Patrick Ness

The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

Orson Scott Card

The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

Orson Scott Card

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

We've worked hard all year waiting for this. We knew it was going to come down to this situation, fighting for first until the end. We knew UCLA was going to be one of the top teams in the league.

Crystal Eastman

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

Clint Dempsey

You've got to go out there and fight.

Clara Zetkin

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Clarence Darrow

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Clarence Darrow

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Daniel Dennett

Up till now, we can suppose, nervous systems solved the Now what do I do? problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly limited repertoire of actions - if not the famous four F's (fight, flee, feed, or mate), then a modest elaboration of them.

Dan Castellaneta

Kill myself? Killing myself is the last thing I'd ever do. Now I have a purpose, a reason to live. I don't care who I have to face, I don't care who I have to fight, I will not rest until this street gets a stop sign!

Dan Brown

If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.

David Frum

The Iraq fight itself is probably going to go very, very fast. The shooting should be over within just a very few days from when it starts.

David Fincher

We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

David Fincher

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the filmmakers. I think that The Game is a movie and I think Fight Club's a film. I think that Fight Club is more than the sum of its parts, whereas Panic Room is the sum of its parts. I didn't look at Panic Room and think: Wow, this is gonna set the world on fire. These are footnote movies, guilty pleasure movies. Thrillers. Woman-trapped-in-a-house movies. They're not particularly important.