Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marlene Dietrich

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Words began fights and words ended them.

Marisha Pessl

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.

Mariska Hargitay

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

Marjane Satrapi

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

Marianne Moore

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

Mariah Carey

You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world.

Mariah Carey

I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system. ..

Medgar Evers

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

Medea Benjamin

I actually think it is people like myself who have been fighting for our rights to free speech and I would like the right to defend my own right to free speech, not have soldiers doing it for me. I don't think I need soldiers.

Max Planck

Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and will always be, 'On to God.'

Max Baucus

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

Maurice Sendak

I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.

May Sarton

Fighting dragons is my holy joy.

May Sarton

We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.

Any person with a little math sense can make up their mind as to how big this was. You look at the opponents we have left and the schedule we have left and you can figure out that obviously with a minute and a half left, we needed a goal.

And then you go to the main systems integrator -- us -- and you say, 'go figure out how to do this.'

Chris Paul

Anything can happen. As long as we have a chance, we're going to keep fighting and keep playing.

Ronald Koeman

Anything is possible in football. Everything is open. We're going to fight until the last minute - just like we did in the first game.

As a team, we had a good day. I like to think of the first three meets as 'let's start figuring out the outdoor season,' but I saw some good things from guys.

As a result, these newly released figures don't surprise us. Rather they remind us of the importance of the work that all of us are doing to improve the safety of women at this university.

Jay Feaster

Right now we have some guys who are fighting it, not just the goaltender. We have to get back to who and what we are, the hardest-working team in hockey.

Jim Mora

Right now, we figure he'll be good to go Sunday night. When you're Mike Vick and your team needs you, the guy shows up - he's a great one.

Right now these kids are pretty well down. I don't know what the problem is, but I have to figure out a way to fix it.

Samantha is the real deal. She has a high vertical and given the time to figure out the left side, she'll be a hammer.

(Santos) can fight. Henry fights better when he knows he's pushed and challenged, when he has to concentrate every round. So this is a good fight for him.

Quarterly figures are very volatile and susceptible to revision, particularly at the turn of the year.

Kent Hrbek

Puck's been a fighter and a game-winner all his life. This sounds like a tough row to hoe now.

Larry Ellison

Rather than try to fight the open source trend, we think it's important to find ways to make it work to our advantage.

Racing wasn't always what it is today. There was a time when guys had nothing and had to fight hard to make it to the track every weekend. Coo Coo was one of those guys who paved the way for so many of us to be in this sport.

People try to fight them and end up drowning.

Yulia Tymoshenko

Our team will fight for the possibility to form the government. We perceive these positions not as a goal, but as an instrument to realize the ideals of the Orange Revolution, ... I don't want people's trust in government to die.