Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Muir

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

John Muir

The bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.

John Wilkes Booth

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

John Wayne

When you stop fighting, that's death.

John Wagner

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

John Thune

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

John Sterling

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

John Stossel

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

John Steinbeck

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

John Steinbeck

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.... In the world ruled by tigers with ulcers, rutted by strictured bulls, scavenged by blind jackals.... What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals?

John Slattery

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

John Piper

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

John Piper

It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.

Martin Luther

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

Martin Luther

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

Martin Luther

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

Mark Thomas

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

Mark Strong

All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.

Mark Steyn

What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

Nick Lampson

More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...

Serena Williams

I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.

Serena Williams

I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.

Sean Connery

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

Michelle Malkin

Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.

Michelle Obama

Don't let anyone speak for you, and don't rely on others to fight for you.

Michelle Obama

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

Michelle Obama

All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

Michael Porter

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

Michael Lerner

Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.

Sherman Alexie

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

Seth Grahame-Smith

An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

Sebastian Faulks

The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.