Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shoshana Zuboff

We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need - reliable insurance policies; affordable health care; safe, healthy food.

Shirin Ebadi

Certainly, the fight against terrorism is a legitimate fight. And certainly whoever commits terrorism should be brought to justice.

Shelby Steele

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

Shelby Lynne

My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up.

Shaquille O'Neal

You gotta fight all the karate guys, and once you kill them off, now you gotta get to the ninjas. Once you get through the ninjas, now you gotta get to the showmen. Now me, I'm the showman of big men.

Sean Paul

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

Leymah Gbowee

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.

Leonard Peltier

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

Len Wiseman

Just movies in general. It's such a wonderful business as much as you feel, you are fine tuning your craft, every movie is a completely different challenge. Every fight sequence is different. Every action set piece. I enjoy that.

Lee Krasner

I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.

Larry Ellison

If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it--a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all--you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.

Larry David

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

Viktor E. Frankl

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

Usain Bolt

I can't watch a [Floyd] Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting. I used to watch boxing in the [Michael] Tyson era when it was exciting. Now it's all bob and weave, a punch here and there. It is not entertaining.

Susanna Kearsley

Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

Susanna Kearsley

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

Suzanne Collins

It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.

Suzanne Collins

And we must fight back! President Snow says he's sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that? Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

Suzanne Collins

its not in my nature to go down without a fight even when things seem insurmountable

Suzanne Collins

We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.

Suzanne Collins

When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

Suzanne Collins

Living out here, I have found that many creatures would prefer not to fight. But if your first instinct is to reach for your sword, you will never discover that.

Suzanne Collins

aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one has the right to treat them as they have been treated?

Suzanne Collins

I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.

Suzanne Collins

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

Taslima Nasrin

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

Taylor Swift

the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.

Stephen Leacock

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.

Stephen King

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

Stephen King

If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them

Star Jones

We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family.

Stanley Tucci

Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.

Taylor Momsen

I remember one tour with two male-fronted bands, and they had a fight over who could use the bathroom first. Then they just ended up having a beef with each other for the entire rest of the tour.