Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aya Cash

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

Arthur Golden

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Arthur Balfour

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

Arthur C. Clarke

Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.

Bela Fleck

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

Barry Zito

I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

Ban Ki-moon

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

Ban Ki-moon

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Arundhati Roy

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

Arundhati Roy

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

Arundhati Roy

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

Ari Fleischer

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

Anthony Trollope

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

Derrick Rose

We got to win. Win no matter what. Trip, kick somebody, fight, bite. Whatever. Win.

Derrick Jensen

Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.

Demi Lovato

Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When I decided to implement it in my life, a whole new world opened up for me. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it. Goal: Be mindful of the tone of your thoughts.

Colin White

We're fighting for points every night. We gave four points up (in the losses to Pittsburgh and the Islanders) and that always hurts at this time of the year. We can't get them back, we just have to keep moving forward.

Olli Jokinen

We're fighting for our lives. The last two or three weeks we've been able to win some games. Every point is huge for us.

Jaromir Jagr

We're fighting for first place in our division, so it's huge.

We're fighting for a playoff spot, where Florida had such a good start that they know they're going to make the playoffs. We're fighting for our lives.

Luke Walton

We're fighting for a playoff position and just to make the playoffs.

Jeffrey Sachs

We're fighting all the wrong wars in this country.

Jeff Zucker

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

We're better than we've been since I've been here, but we're also more disappointed, because we have the talent to be over .500. You just have to stick with it and fight through it. Who knows how good this team can be or where we'll finish up?

Kenneth Choi

When I work, I like to just kind of stay quiet, stay to myself. I like to walk around a lot and figure out what's gonna happen in the scene and try to get my head straight.

Gary Bettman

to pick a fight with the union on this issue at this point.

We're putting the petition on our Web site by the end of the week. We're having a fight with the Secretary of State because we want to start (gathering signatures) at 7 p.m. (Tuesday) after the polls close.

We knew we were going to have to fight each other eventually,

We let the judge figure out the rest of it.

We knew they were a good team and they could make a run. We know that if good teams are going to make runs, then we have to make runs to win. We have to keep fighting, and that's why I'm proud of my team, because we kept fighting throughout this game.

We lacked that intensity the last 2 minutes because we figured the game was over. We've got to finish games better than that.

We know how important this weekend is, not only for the team's confidence, but also for our playoff outlook. This weekend will go a long way towards determining if we're up near the top fighting it out, or scrapping for a berth at the end of the season.

Don Cheadle

If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?