Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephenie Meyer

I used to think of you that way, you know. Like the sun. My personal sun. You balanced out the clouds nicely for me." He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

Stephenie Meyer

When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.

Stephenie Meyer

Saving her life was the one acceptable thing I'd done since I met her. The one thing that I was not ashamed of. The one and only thing that made me glad I existed at all. I'd been fighting to keep her alive since the first moment I'd caught her scent.

Stephen Breyer

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

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.

William Howard Taft

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.

Vladimir Kramnik

Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

Vivienne Westwood

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

Vivienne Westwood

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.

Vincent Van Gogh

Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

Vincent Van Gogh

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

Vladimir Lenin

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

Vladimir Lenin

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

Will McDonough

I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.

Walter Annenberg

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

Virginia Woolf

scarcely a human being in the course of history has fallen to a woman's rifle; the vast majority of birds and beasts have been killed by you, not by us. Obviously there is for you some glory, some necessity, some satisfaction in fighting which we have never felt or enjoyed.

Virginia Woolf

Thinking is my fighting.

Werner Herzog

You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

Wayne Pacelle

Media coverage of the legislative fights is overwhelmingly negative for agriculture interests. The impression left among consumers is that the proponents had something to hide.

Wayne Pacelle

People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight.

Wayne Pacelle

We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur.... We want Americans to eat fewer animals

Wallace Shawn

You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you.

Walker Percy

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

Samuel Smiles

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

Samuel Fuller

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is.

Samuel Hahnemann

Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.

Salma Hayek

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

Salma Hayek

In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future -- for everyone.

Salman Rushdie

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

Salman Rushdie

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

Ryan Reynolds

You can be deported back to Canada, absolutely, for a shockingly minor infraction. Little bar fight. Next thing you know you are back in Sascatchuan. Which I'm not from, thank God... But it did concern me.