Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian MacKaye

I'm not talking about what came later, indie music, or whatever you want to call it, but the music that came before that - that's an important story. So many interviews with musicians get the time or context wrong. You have these older bands, usually men, who tell stories about "Oh, we got into this huge fight, this guy punched that guy," that's the wrong sort of story. My view of the time is truly pioneering.

Ian MacKaye

We had punks literally protesting Fugazi. I respect a boycott. I respect a conscionable boycott, but of all bands to boycott? Fight crime. If you really want to get out there, go fight crime.

Ian Fleming

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

Horatio Nelson

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

Horatio Nelson

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

Homer

Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

Homer

Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.

Homer

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

Homer

Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!

Homer

Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.

Homer

Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.

Homer

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

If I get it (the touchdown record), great. Hopefully I'll get it this weekend. But more important, we need to get the win because we're fighting for the playoffs.

Maurice Cheeks

I did all the talking. It was about us and trying to stay together - number one - which we will do, and to keep working. You have to keep working through it. I just know that we have to keep fighting and keep working.

I am worried that he will go back to Liberia and start fighting again. I suspect he is already in Liberia.

Pauline Hanson

I am not guilty and I will be fighting this.

Dennis Hastert

I am proud of our president, our troops, and our allies, ... Yes, we are fighting to preserve our national security. But we are also fighting to preserve the universal ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Michael Young

He's nasty. I'll guarantee you 30 teams will be fighting over him if he comes over.

How many teams do you know that would like to be here right now? It's hard to be disappointed or frustrated when your team is here fighting for a championship. Yes, we are disappointed with the result, but, overall, I couldn't be happier for this group.

I do feel a little responsible but I kept fighting to the end. Meg is a very solid player but I just wish I had risen to the occasion a little better.

I do feel a little responsible but I kept fighting to the end,

Hunter S. Thompson

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

Huey Long

In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp.

Hassan Rouhani

Our economy will not prosper as long as it is monopolised (by the government). The economy must be rid of monopoly and see competition, it must be freed of insider speculation, be transparent, all people must be aware of the statistics. If we can bring transparency to our economy, we can fight corruption.

Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah is not fighting for Syria. Hezbollah is not fighting for Iran. Hezbollah is fighting for Lebanon.

Hassan Nasrallah

In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.

James Branch Cabell

I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

Jalal Talabani

We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.

Jalal Talabani

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

Jackie Chan

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

Jackie Chan

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

Jackie Chan

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

Jackie Chan

I thought I should forget Hollywood and go back to Hong Kong. I'm so lucky that finally Hollywood accepts my comedy fighting.