Quotes about fighting
fighting men views
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable. Hypatia
fighting terror
Its never right to fight terror with terror. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
fighting battle be-kind
There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone. Gloria Vanderbilt
fighting artist mexico
Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi! Gloria Trevi
fighting rights america
Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president who tells us what America is fighting for, not just what we are fighting against. We want a president who will defend human rights - not just where it is convenient - but wherever freedom is at risk - from Chile to Afghanistan, from Poland to South Africa Geraldine Ferraro
fighting mass-destruction agreement
We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict. Harry Reid
fighting bars stories
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight. J. Michael Straczynski
fighting journey profound
Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
fighting animal hands
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for its life. The whole of the being of the animal is thrown into that fight, without reserve. When you say that the fight lacks a dimension of intellectual or imaginative horror, I agree. It is not the mode of being animals to have an intellectual horror: their whole being is in the living flesh...I urge you to walk, flank to flank, beside the beast that is prodded down the chute to his executioner. J. M. Coetzee
fighting men interesting
What's interesting about the wizarding world is when you take physical strength out of the equation, a woman can do magic just as powerfully as a man can do magic. A woman can fight just the same as a man. J. K. Rowling
fighting sight death-eaters
And as she jogged out of sight, they could hear her muttering, "Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods. Yes, I'd like to see Death Eaters fighting those.
fighting impossible tough
Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.
fighting thinking practice
That's right," said Luna encouragingly, as if they were back in the Room of Requirement and this was simply spell practice for the D.A. "That's right, Harry... come on, think of something happy..." "Something happy?" he said, his voice cracked. "We're all still here," she whispered, "We're still fighting. Come on, now...
fighting should-have evil
What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!
fighting evil important
It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .
fighting tolerance different
He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself. H. G. Wells
fighting voting stronger
Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting. H. L. Mencken
fighting government people
[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
fighting thinking effort
I think making small movies reminds you of the effort. When you make big movies, the effort is to fight for freedom. When you make small movies, the effort is making the day, making the budget, and it's great, too. Guillermo del Toro
fighting stuff causes
For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.
fighting devil clay
Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil. Greg Jackson
fighting yelling quarrels
I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel. Grace Kelly
fighting yelling people
Why getting angry? Getting angry doesn’t solve anything… I don’t like yelling and fighting and I can’t quarrel, I prefer to let it drop… When people use disagreeable words, I feel crushed and remember them for a long time.
fighting looks painting
On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.] George Herbert
fighting winning sometimes
Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting. Gene Luen Yang
fighting boredom vain
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain. Friedrich Nietzsche
fighting rights feminist
If you're fighting to limit other women's rights, then you can't really call yourself a feminist. Jessica Valenti
fighting battle tools
Introspection can easily become the tool of Satan, who is called the accuser. One of his chief weapons is discouragement. He knows that if he can make us discouraged and dispirited we will not fight the battle for holiness. Jerry Bridges
fighting men talking
I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody. Jennifer Beals
fighting rehearsal inner-demons
During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was. Jeanne Moreau
fighting long brain
The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we are still apes. A part of our brain is still a paleo-brain and many of the reactions come from our fight or flight instinct. As long as this part of the brain can take over control the rational part of the brain (we will face these problems). Jean-Marie Lehn
fighting injustice young
Fighting injustice keeps you young. Gloria Allred
fighting rights two
When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.