Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Lyndon B. Johnson

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

Luke Evans

Every film, every fight choreographer, wants to have a different flair, have a different fight technique. So any film I've done that involved weapons has always been fascinating because everyone is different.

Ludwig Quidde

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

Luciano Pavarotti

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Louise Penny

Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

Loretta Lynn

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

Malala Yousafzai

If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib, You must not treat others with cruelty. You must fight others through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Malala Yousafzai

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

Mahesh Babu

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear,

Mahatma Gandhi

Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

Mahatma Gandhi

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every fight is one between different angles of vision illuminating the same truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

Gabrielle Zevin

Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

Gail Carriger

She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. “Certainly not. Something far more important: perfume. We cannot very well have you fighting crime unscented, now, can we?” “Oh.” Alexia nodded gravely. After all, Madame Lefoux was French. “Certainly not.

Gail Carriger

What if I arrange to be around Lord Akeldama during the full moon?” The earl looked daggers. “I am certain he would be extremely helpful in a fight. He could ruthlessly flatter all your attackers into abject submission.

Frank Lampard

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

Frank Luntz

If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.

Maggie Q

Every action project you take, whether it be a movie or TV series, is always different and a lot of people don't really know how big a difference it is. It's a different style of fighting, a different tempo and all of that.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

I was thinking about how people were upset about the information that came out from Snowden about the NSA - many people were upset, including myself. But I was kind of surprised by how little we did about it - how little fighting we did.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

Norman Schwarzkopf

How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

Norman Mailer

I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.

Norman Ralph Augustine

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Norman Reedus

It's really easy to take something small and make it big in your head and fight against it.

Orson Welles

As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.