Famous Quotes & Sayings

But we need to keep playing hard and fighting for positions.

My husband, he was out in Iraq fighting for his country, and he comes back and he gets shot down like an animal.

My girls really wanted it. That's why they kept fighting and fighting.

For years, labor leaders were fighting Wal-Mart the old way, but times have changed.

Sergey Brin

I don't think we like the precedent of it, and so we're fighting it. I think we're right.

Daniela Hantuchova

I have so much respect for the way she plays, ... I just tried to keep fighting for every point. I went for my shots and it paid off.

Martina McBride

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

George Shinn

I feel like the guy that's got two women that's fighting over him. It would be nice if it was two women instead of two states.

I feel like we're fighting a war on three fronts and maybe four. Obviously our hands are full.

I can't really complain. They (Reagan) were just the better team. We didn't give up and we kept fighting to the end, but they were just a better team.

Ben Fountain

If a person wants to be of any use to himself, he better insist on getting his fair share of beauty and pleasure, and if there's something about the system that's keeping him from getting his share, then I think he's well within his rights to fight to change that.

Cara Castronuova

I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.

C. S. Lewis

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

Burt Ward

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.

Cesar Chavez

If you win non-violently, then you have a double victory, you have not only won your fight, but you remain free.

Carson McCullers

In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of they hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is not. Now is the time to act and to act quickly. Fight cunning with cunning and might with might

Carl Zimmer

The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.

Carl von Clausewitz

But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition, their numbers have been diminished, their strength and their morale are drained, and possibly their courage has vanished as well. As an organic whole, quite apart from their loss in numbers, they are far from being what they were before the action; and thus the amount of reserves spent is an accurate measure on the loss of morale.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

Alain de Botton

Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

Alain de Botton

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Al Franken

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

Charles James Fox

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

Charles Kennedy

I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

Charles Kingsley

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

Charles Kingsley

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Channing Tatum

There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.

Channing Tatum

It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.

Channing Tatum

Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

Channing Tatum

I'm not political. I just want America to do well, I want the world to do well. I want everyone to stop fighting.

Channing Tatum

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.

Channing Tatum

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

Bradley Whitford

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.