Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elie Wiesel

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

Blanche Lincoln

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Billy Joe Saunders

I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.

Billy Joe Saunders

It is an honour to fight at the Royal Albert Hall.

Billy Idol

Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.

Billy Joel

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

Billy Joel

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

Bill Parcells

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

Bev Perdue

I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.

Bernie Mac

People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.

Edmond Rostand

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain...

Eddie Izzard

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Eartha Kitt

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

David Icke

You don't fight for peace. You Peace for Peace.

David Icke

If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold it together. Non-cooperation. We cannot be imprisoned without our cooperation. Their power is in our acquiescence.

David Brin

In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year.

Benazir Bhutto

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

Barry Alvarez

We hadn't lost morale. But when you fight for four quarters, it's tough to always bounce back. The offense kept us in the game the last two weeks and to get out with a win feels really good.

Barney Frank

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

Barney Frank

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

Audre Lorde

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

Arnold J. Toynbee

My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'

Edwin Markham

Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.

Bobby Jones

Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.

Bobby Jindal

It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.

Ben Bernanke

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

Barbara Tuchman

The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.

Aya Cash

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

Arthur Golden

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Arthur Balfour

I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

Arthur C. Clarke

Though the man-apes often fought and wrestled one another, their disputes very seldom resulted in serious injuries. Having no claws or fighting canine teeth, and being well protected by hair, they could not inflict much harm on one another. In any event, they had little surplus energy for such unproductive behavior; snarling and threatening was a much more efficient way of asserting their points of view.

Bela Fleck

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.