Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Eckstein

In Anaheim, you were fighting for your life every single night,

I'm happy where I finished, but at the same time I was really fighting for that spot up there on the medal podium. I am a little disappointed. Actually, I'm a lot disappointed. It's so close, but just out of reach.

John Tortorella

I just thought he was fighting it a bit. He didn't look comfortable. John was outstanding.

Jimmie Johnson

I look at Mark Martin and ... he's been competitive and has been fighting for championships for really the majority of his career,

Being a loser-out game, no one wants their season to be over. That's a team (Newport) that has lots of seniors, so they were fighting until the end.

But we need to keep playing hard and fighting for positions.

This is 8.6 on the Richter scale. With an open supervisor seat and the GOP organization fighting ... it sounds to me like Islip is Brookhaven 2006.

This happens every year, but in '06, it will be bigger. There are going to be some people that will say it's not worth fighting anymore.

Buck Owens

This happens and suddenly everyone is fighting to get on a plane to get down there.

Neil Kinnock

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

John Muir

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

John Muir

The bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.

John Wilkes Booth

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

John Wayne

When you stop fighting, that's death.

John Wagner

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

John Thune

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

John Sterling

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

John Stossel

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

John Steinbeck

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

John Steinbeck

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.... In the world ruled by tigers with ulcers, rutted by strictured bulls, scavenged by blind jackals.... What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals?

John Slattery

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

John Piper

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

John Piper

It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.

Martin Luther

A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.

Martin Luther

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

Martin Luther

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

Mark Thomas

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it.

Mark Strong

All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea.

Mark Steyn

What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

Nick Lampson

More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Intelligence communities are very closed communities, but at the same time, you don't only learn how to fight terrorism. You need to learn about life, about West and East, geography, history, culture, there are many, many things that you learn in order to be able to solve puzzles.