Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agatha Christie

The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

Agatha Christie

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

Adriana Lima

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

Adrian Mitchell

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Adela Florence Nicolson

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Adam Rapp

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, "well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct".

Adam Levine

I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.

Adam Michnik

I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.

Abraham Cahan

You must never tire fighting Satan.

Abraham Lincoln

As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

We stayed in it and we kept fighting back and fighting back. We missed some free throws down the stretch we would like to have had. But this was a playoff game, with a playoff atmosphere.

Alex Sanchez

You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?

Alex Rodriguez

I’m fighting for my life, I have to defend myself. If I don’t defend myself, no one else will.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Religion itself cannot but be dynamic. In order to combat modern materialistic mores, to fight nihilism and egotism, religion must also develop, must be flexible in its forms, and it must have a correlation with the cultural forms of the epoch.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.

Alexandra Adornetto

Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.

Alexander the Great

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

Alexander Pushkin

A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? custom is despot of mankind.

We battled and battled and battled and finally got a point or two ahead. That took a lot out of us, but my kids kept fighting and kept playing hard. We were in it all the way until the last minute.

Aaron Levie

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

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.