Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS

Nelson Mandela

We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well.

Nelson Mandela

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.

Nelson Mandela

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

Nelson Algren

Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

Neil Young

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

Neil Young

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

Rachel Maddow

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

Rachel Maddow

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine—guns get a pass. Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.

Rachel Maddow

At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.

Mike Huckabee

I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.

Niall Ferguson

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

Neville Chamberlain

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

Newt Gingrich

As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.

Noam Chomsky

The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.

Mike Pence

The choice couldn't be more clear. Americans can elect someone who literally personifies the failed establishment in Washington, D.C., or we can choose a leader who will fight every day to make America great again.

John Ashcroft

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

Huey Long

In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

Ice Cube

You can go raise the money outside of the industry, and then what you're doing is fighting with your money to get back into the industry, or for them to use your money instead of their own. So, you got to figure out how to do it within the flow of the industry.

Ice Cube

I've been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers - not prove them wrong, because I don't think you should get your energy from negative people.

He realized the way to fight for justice was to organize legal and illegal workers.

Ismail Haniyeh

We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.

Iris Dement

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

Ilana Glazer

I don't want to watch people fighting.

Hypatia

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Katrina Law

I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.

Katrina Law

I'm not going to say it's easy, but I do have an ease with picking up fight choreography because of my dance training.

Kristen Bell

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

Kit Harington

I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.

Kim Delaney

I know how guys talk, so I'm not easily offended. Guys can fight and be best friends five minutes later. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

Kim Gandy

It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.

Kim Edwards

This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.