Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Levenson

At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."

Saadi

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

Rory Stewart

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

Ron Perlman

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

Romain Grosjean

You never want to concede a place, but when youre leading the race or fighting for a podium position, you can find ways to make your car very wide!

Susan Sarandon

It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking for fights on marijuana. No one dies from marijuana intoxication. And no one should be jailed for possessing marijuana.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Losing isn't as bad as not fighting at all.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

Susan Butcher

A friend of mine said, 'Leukemia hasn't met Susan Butcher yet,' and I agree with her. It's going to have to fight awful hard if it wants to take me.

Simon Bolivar

If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.

Shia LaBeouf

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

Sharon Salzberg

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

Neil Peart

No one gets to their heaven without a fight.

Taylor Swift

FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost.

Taylor Swift

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

Taylor Swift

Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.

Tavis Smiley

I love the fight. I don't - it's not a negative, it's a positive, and I love the challenge. There's that little part of me that I love proving someone wrong in that way when they have an image of me or something, or they think they have me figured out or they think I'm a certain way.

Tavis Smiley

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

Taraji P. Henson

I'm constantly proving myself. I have to always prove myself. There are roles where I feel like, "That should have been a straight offer. Why am I having to call my people and fight for it?"

Tara Brach

In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. This place and inner state are called his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds his querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From the matador's perspective, at this point the bull is truly dangerous, for he has tapped into his power.

Tallulah Bankhead

Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat.

Suzy Kassem

I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.

Swami Vivekananda

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

Swami Vivekananda

So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God forms or symbols , names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere , if he really wants to reach the truth , he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing.

Swami Vivekananda

It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.

Tony Parsons

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.

Tony Benn

Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.

Tony Abbott

You cannot win an election without a fight

Simone Elkeles

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.

Simone de Beauvoir

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Simone Weil

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.

Simon Pegg

Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.

Rick Riordan

Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly