Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Jane Haddam

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

Jane Jacobs

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

Jane Goodall

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.

Jane Goodall

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

Jan Ullrich

To me there's no doubt I will be fighting for victory.

Ken Marino

I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.

Camille Paglia

I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.

Carl Icahn

A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it.

Carl Hiaasen

I was born and raised here [in Florida], so I still have tremendous affection for the state - especially the few wild places that haven't disappeared under concrete. What's left is still worth fighting for, and that's why I stay.

Carl Jung

You always become the thing you fight the most.

Wow, I thought you were supposed to be this mean fighter that goes out there and knocks people out all the time.' Well, in the ring, yes, but outside the ring I'm a person and I go out there and try other things also.

John Edward

won't always use the same words. But we will always fight the same fight.

We're still growing and still learning the game. Tumwater is the team to beat, so to fight hard with the young kids I have, I'm really proud of them.

Elian Gonzalez

We're still going to be fighting for the freedom of Cuba.

We're still fighting to get into the tournament. I guess we realized we don't want to be the last seed.

Omar Vizquel

We're still fighting for something and when he comes back it will be even better, ... I don't know what type of shape he's in, but personally it will be great. I've never played in the National League and I'm looking forward to playing with him.

Joe Torre

We're running out of games, ... This is our playoffs right now. We need to fight our way into the postseason.

We're right there to play with every team in the conference. We're talented enough, we fight hard enough. At the end of games, we don't play as smart as we need to and with as much poise and confidence, taking the game instead of handing it away.

We're not having any fights - people seem to be making friends.

Danny Davis

We've got lots of other things we need to be fighting against, but fighting discrimination, that's important too.

Darin Erstad

We've got a resilient group of guys. We're going to keep fighting. That was a tough one (Thursday), but we've turned the page and moved on.

Bill O'Reilly

Think about this some of us actively fighting to remove Saddam Hussein don't agree with the cause themselves, but they're doing their duty. And it is our duty as loyal Americans to shut up once the fighting begins, unless unless facts prove the operation wrong, as was the case in Vietnam.

Bill Moyers

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

Bertolt Brecht

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

Bertolt Brecht

People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

If you fight you might lose, if you don't you have already lost.

Bertolt Brecht

He who fights, can lose. He who doesn't fight, has already lost.

Benjamin Haydon

The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

Bernard Hopkins

There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.

Bernard Hopkins

This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.

Bernard Hopkins

I didn't need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I've always fought the best and I've always wanted to prove myself to the best.

Bernard Hopkins

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.