Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Chbosky

The fights are always the same

Stephen Colbert

I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.

Sonia Sotomayor

If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.

Thomas Harris

Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.

Tim Ryan

It is hard to look at the amount of damage in the two states and say it's equal, but the time to fight that battle is gone. Without Louisiana and Mississippi working together, Louisiana might have gotten a lot less than that. That's just the reality of politics.

Woody Allen

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

Woody Allen

I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.

William Shakespeare

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

William J. Clinton

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

William James

We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.

Will Durant

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

Sarah Palin

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

Saoirse Ronan

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

Samuel Pepys

Fight the good fight; and always call to mind that it is not you who are mortal, but this body of ours. For your true being is not discerned by perceiving your physical appearance. But 'what a man's mind is, that is what he is' not that individual human shape that we identify through our senses.

William Faulkner

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

Wilbur Smith

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

Warren G. Bennis

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

Saint Augustine

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

Venus Williams

People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.

Vera Farmiga

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

Vanessa Hudgens

You'll always have to fight for what you want. Definitely crossing over and being able to tackle these grittier parts was a challenge, but I feel like I've done it! It's a whole new chapter.

Vance Havner

The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.

Ulysses S. Grant

God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.

Richard Dawkins

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Robin Hobb

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Robert Reischauer

They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.

Robert Reich

Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

Robert Reich

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

Rob Bishop

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

Rob Halford

You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.

Richard Paul Evans

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Richelle Mead

Ah, those two. In a fight, they’re lethal. Around each other, they melt.

Richelle Mead

He was hiding from his problems in a bottle, something that went against every piece of my nature. Me? I couldnʹt let my problems win without a fight.