Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Glover

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

Dakota Goyo

I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.

Dale Carnegie

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

Creed Bratton

I love it [music]. I always have loved it. There's something about playing music that inspires me. When I've had some really down periods in my life, debauched beyond belief, not knowing what the hell I'm gonna do with my life, [Rolling Stones'] "Street Fighting Man" or something like that would come on the radio, and I'm pounding the dash and the rock and roll will inspire me to keep going. It inspires me. It's true.

Colin Powell

It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.

Colin Powell

Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Corrine Brown

As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

Cory Monteith

I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were cool and dress how they dressed, talk how they talked, do whatever they were into. This led to a period of drugs and anchohol. When his family gave him an ultimatum to get clean or they'd report him to the police Corey said, "I was done fighting myself. I finally said, "I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.

Cory Booker

Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

Cory Doctorow

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

Cory Doctorow

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

Clive Owen

I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.

Clint Eastwood

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

e. e. cummings

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

e. e. cummings

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

e. e. cummings

And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world- unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

e. e. cummings

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

Dustin Hoffman

We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

Douglas Hofstadter

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

Ann Patchett

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.

Andy Williams

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

Aneurin Bevan

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

Ang Lee

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

Ang Lee

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

Anatoly Karpov

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF

Anais Nin

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.

Anne Fortier

When the old men fight, the young people die.

Anne Hathaway

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

Anjelica Huston

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

Ann Aguirre

He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

Ann Aguirre

There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

Ann Aguirre

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.