Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marianne Moore

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

Mariah Carey

You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world.

Mariah Carey

I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system. ..

Medgar Evers

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

Medea Benjamin

I actually think it is people like myself who have been fighting for our rights to free speech and I would like the right to defend my own right to free speech, not have soldiers doing it for me. I don't think I need soldiers.

Max Planck

Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and will always be, 'On to God.'

Max Baucus

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

Maurice Sendak

I'm getting old. And I'm disappointed in everything just the way old people traditionally, boringly are. That bothers me because is it too traditional? Am I not fighting hard enough? I don't feel the fight. I don't feel it.

May Sarton

Fighting dragons is my holy joy.

May Sarton

We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.

Maura Tierney

I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.

Mattie Stepanek

People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

Mattie Stepanek

If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.

Meg Ryan

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.

Maxine Waters

Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it's their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.

Max von Sydow

In a theater, the part is mine and I can control it as I want to. In the movies, I don't have direct contact, and I am fighting technical machinery

Max Stirner

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

Maurice Jarre

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

Matthew Broderick

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Patricia Briggs

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

Patricia Briggs

Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.

Patricia Briggs

Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.

Patricia Briggs

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.

Plato

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.

Martin Seligman

Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health.

Martin Sheen

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

Martin Sheen

The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, “Of course, just show us your scars.” The man says, “I have no scars”. St. Peter says, “What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for”?

Martin Sheen

Find something in your life worth fighting for

Martin Sheen

Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!

Laura Miller

Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

Laura Linney

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.