Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Gottfried

One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we cured AIDS. Any advancements that came towards fighting AIDS were not done by scientists or doctors - it was people with little ribbons on their lapels.

Germaine Greer

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Gertrude Stein

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

Gerard Way

In those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Glen Cook

If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.

Georges St-Pierre

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key,

Georges St-Pierre

Before each one of my fights, I make a point of saluting my opponent. I salute the other fighter out of respect, even though he is trying to take something from me.

Georges St-Pierre

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.

Georges St-Pierre

There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.

Georges St-Pierre

Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

Georges St-Pierre

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

Georges St-Pierre

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

Georges St-Pierre

It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.

Georges St-Pierre

Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

Georges St-Pierre

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

Georges St-Pierre

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

Herman Melville

Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.

Herb Kohl

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.

Jenson Button

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

Jeffrey Gitomer

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

Jeff Lacy

You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles

Jesse Helms

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

Jesse Jackson

Fighting disparities is very significant.

Jesse Jackson

When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.

Jennifer Pahlka

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

Jean Chretien

I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.

James Carville

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.

Jacqueline Carey

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

Jacqueline Novogratz

By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

Jackie Robinson

Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?

Christopher Isherwood

I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.

Christopher Hitchens

Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.