Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Putin

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

William Morris

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

Yingluck Shinawatra

I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

Yochai Benkler

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

Yitzhak Shamir

Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.

Yitzhak Rabin

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

Yitzhak Rabin

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

Yitzhak Rabin

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.

Winona LaDuke

Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

Winston Churchill

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

Winston Churchill

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

Winston Churchill

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Winston Churchill

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Willie Aames

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

William Safire

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

William Kristol

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

William Jennings Bryan

I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.

Virginia Woolf

I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

Virginia Woolf

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Woody Guthrie

All of you cowboys, fight for your land.

Woodrow Wilson

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

Woodrow Wilson

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Woodrow Wilson

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

Woodrow Wilson

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

Woodrow Wilson

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

Woodrow Wilson

In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.

Woodrow Wilson

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Saint Augustine

Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

Yasser Arafat

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

Witold Gombrowicz

If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

Wladimir Klitschko

I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide.