Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.

Nelson Mandela

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

Nelson Algren

Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

Neil Young

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

Neil Young

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

Rachel Maddow

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

Rachel Maddow

The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarine—guns get a pass. Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost.

Rachel Maddow

At a time when America should be doing everything we can to lead the fight to defeat ISIS and other radical jihadists, Donald Trump is playing right into their hands.

Mike Huckabee

I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.

Niall Ferguson

Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?

The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

Neville Chamberlain

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

Newt Gingrich

As a citizen, I would rather have a President McCain that we fight with 20% of the time, than a President Clinton or a President Obama that we fight with 90% of the time.

Noam Chomsky

The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.

Mike Pence

The choice couldn't be more clear. Americans can elect someone who literally personifies the failed establishment in Washington, D.C., or we can choose a leader who will fight every day to make America great again.

John Ashcroft

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

Joe Calzaghe

[Tyson] Fury is big and [Wladimir] Klitschko's not used to fighting someone his size. If Fury can stop Klitschko grabbing and avoid that big right hand, he's got a chance. In the heavyweight division, it only takes one punch.

Jodi Picoult

You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Jodi Picoult

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

John Gresham Machen

In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.

John Grisham

And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!

John Grisham

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.

Keegan Allen

Everyone just needs to stop fighting and have a cookie.

Kristen Stewart

I was just fighting dwarves then hit my knee really hard.

Kinky Friedman

I don't see how the people who created the problem can fix it. Texas is worth fighting for, and the best way to fight is to get the politicians out of politics.

Kinky Friedman

I want to fight the wussification of the State of Texas. I want to rise and shine and bring back the glory.

Oscar Niemeyer

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

Olivia Wilde

I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.

Oliver North

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

Margaret Atwood

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

Marcus Luttrell

There is no other way to beat a terrorist. You must fight like him, or he will surely kill you.

Marcus Luttrell

There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.

Kid Cudi

I don't like to power trip, but when you're a boss you have to fight for certain things.