Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Calvin

Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail.

Johan Huizinga

Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.

Joel Fuhrman

Dieting by portion control doesnt work because one is constantly fighting addictive drives.

Joe Kraus

Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

Jimmy Wales

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Georg Solti

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

Garry Kasparov

When you say politics, you conjure a whole bunch of associations: elections, campaigning, debates, fundraising. None of this exists in Russia! We are still fighting not for election victories but for having elections at all.

Garry Kasparov

If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last and you had better be the one to throw it.

Garrison Keillor

That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.

Gabrielle Giffords

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

Franklin Knight Lane

The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

Frank Church

The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.

George Clooney

I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.

George Clooney

When you go to Detroit you see a town that is resilient, that's just fighting to win again, and there's an energy to that. Just watching a city really fighting to get back on its feet and watching the inner strength of a city is tremendous.

Gayle King

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

Gayle Forman

It's ok if you want to stop fighting.

Gayle Forman

It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.

Lord Acton

The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

Edward Teller

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

Edward de Bono

My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.

Edie Falco

I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.

Eckhart Tolle

Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Holly Black

Sam: You know what I wish? Cassel: What? Sam: That someone would covert my bed into a robot that would fight other bed robots to the death for me.

Holly Black

One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.

Hermann Maier

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.

Hermann Maier

I still have more to fight for in the coming years.

Hermann Hesse

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.

Henry Vaughan

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Henry Van Dyke

The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

Jose Maria Aznar

There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

Jose Mourinho

If you're not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs - we cannot do this