Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Horowitz

He died fighting for what he believed in.

Anthony Kiedis

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got.

Anthony Hopkins

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

Alicia Keys

Even when I'm singing on record there's a lot of times when I'll fight for a bit of imperfection. I might not have quite hit the note to the perfect pitch but there was a soul in there and feeling that, to me, delivers the emotion of that moment. For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

Alice Paul

Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.

Alice Paul

It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women…Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.

Alice Sebold

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.

Alice Walker

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Alice Walker

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

Ani Difranco

For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.

Ani Difranco

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

Ally Carter

I saw the gun. I sensed the van as it rushed forward, seconds away and coming faster. I heard the screams of the fight behind us. But nothing that night was louder than the masked man's astonished whisper as he looked at the boy who stood beside me and said, 'you?

Allen Ginsberg

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

Allan McNish

As a driver you enjoy winning races, and if you win in the easiest way possible, fine, but in reality we all remember the fights to the end, the nip and tuck stuff.

Alison Sweeney

One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.

Anthony Jeselnik

One of my favorite things on the show was just getting to do my own monologue and talking about someone who killed themselves, or making a joke about some horrible tragedy - I love being able to fight for and get on TV. I just think it's so different.

Ann Brashares

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Andrea Dworkin

Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who use to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with any more. It doesn't matter who the individual women are.

Andrea Bocelli

I am not only fighting against something, I am fighting for something - and I am for life.

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Man, it seems, is not able to bear the languid rest on Nature's bosom, and when the trumpet sounds the signal of danger, he hastens to join his comrades, no matter what the cause that calls him to arms. He rushes into the thickest of the fight, and amid the uproar of the battle regains confidence in himself and his powers.

Afrika Bambaataa

Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.

Javier Solana

will not tolerate a return to all-out fighting and a policy of repression in Kosovo.

Sky Dayton

We realized we were fighting the same enemy.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.

We are fighting for a free-market economy. This means we want to open our economy, which is heavily protected by the state.

Alex Jones

The Jew haters and white supremacists…all they do is fight with each other all day too.

Ellen Gilchrist

I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.

Emun Elliott

I'm still fighting for parts - it's not like I'm sitting with a big pile of scripts putting them in a 'yes' and 'no' pile.

Jan Egeland

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.

Janis Joplin

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

Janet Suzman

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.

Brian Eno

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.