Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duncan Hunter

That is detrimental to the 135,000 good people who are fighting right now in theater and who need their leadership and need a focused leadership,

Gail Tsukiyama

Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you’re fighting for.

Frederick Douglass

If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote.

Ferdie Pacheco

There shouldn't be a death in the ring. There should never have been deaths in the ring, because people - deaths in the ring occur because they don't keep up with the records well enough. They are putting mismatches together. The people who are licensed to stop a fight, the referee and the corner, don't do it for fear that the audience is going to object to them stopping a fight.

Federica Montseny

The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

Feist

I know more than I knew before I didn't rest I didn't stop Did we fight or did we talk.

Fat Joe

I'm thinking, 'OK, we're about to fight.' I'm like, 'We're about to get it on right here at the VMAs?

Faith Popcorn

Women are opening businesses at twice the rate of men ... Forty percent of businesses will be owned by women. Women are saying, I don't belong in this company. I'm sick of fighting this battle.

Fannie Lou Hamer

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight to try to liberate ourselves from the men - this is another trick to get us fighting among ourselves - but to work together with the black man, then we will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as human beings in our sick society.

Famke Janssen

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

Faith Hunter

Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.

Ezra Pound

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

Ezra Pound

Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.

Ezra Taft Benson

We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism.

Ezra Taft Benson

A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.

Ezra Taft Benson

There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways, but it generally boils down to this: Just live the gospel; there's no need to get involved in trying to save freedom and the Constitution or stop communism.... Should we counsel the people, 'Just live your religion - there's no need to get involved in the fight for freedom?' No we should not, because our stand for freedom is a most basic part of our religion.

Evel Knievel

I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.

Eve Ensler

An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.

Francis Picabia

The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries.

David Jackson

It made us have to come a little further to come back. Basically, we were fighting the whole game to come back. Trading baskets, you're not gonna win.

It keeps your mind active. Puzzles are good for your mental health and for fighting Alzheimer's.

Walt Kyle

It was an important series for us and we put ourselves in a big hole. We're fighting now to stay on home ice in the first round.

It's a virtual reality fighting game. It's all weapons.

It's about time the labor movement (became) much more active, fighting for working people in this country,

Ella Baker

Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

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.

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.

Janet Evanovich

Are we fighting?" I asked Morelli. "No. Were discussing." "Are you sure?" "Am I yelling?" Morelli asked. "Is my face purple? Are the cords on my neck standing out? Am I waving my arms around?" "No." "The were not fighting.