Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Kleypas

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

John Updike

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

John Updike

Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works.

John Sweeney

Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.

John Stuart Mill

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

John Robbins

It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them.

James H. Douglas

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

Larry Holmes

Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

Larry Holmes

I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.

Larry Holmes

I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies - Poverty, unemployment.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

Kyle Maynard

Everybody is going to have a point in their life when they can’t see any brightness at the end of the tunnel…but there always is…you just have to keep on fighting.

Kyle MacLachlan

I really fight for my privacy.

Liam Payne

I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

Libba Bray

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

Libba Bray

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

Leslie Marmon Silko

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting.

Friedrich Schiller

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Ferdie Pacheco

The heat was as intense as any fight I've ever been in,

John Brown

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

Nicolas Cage

The idea that kids younger than mine are fighting guerilla wars using guns sold for profit is just mind-boggling to me. And the question is, who are the people supplying those weapons? How do they sleep? What kind of people are they?

Avigdor Lieberman

The dividing line for Yisrael Beiteinu is who supports terror and who fights terror.

Ozzie Guillen

A lot of managers tell their G.M. what they want to hear, ... I won't do that. I won't lie to him. I won't talk to him as a boss. I'll fight him.

Jacque Fresco

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

Henry Rollins

Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.

Henry Rollins

There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

Henry Rollins

I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time. I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

Judge for yourself who's still fighting for change and who got sick on power, because the person in the Miraflores has forgotten about the people of Venezuela.

Henry Adams

Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.

Henry A. Kissinger

I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.