Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.

Ehud Barak

If we thought that instead of 200 Palestinian fatalities, 2,000 dead would put an end to the fighting at a stroke, we would use much more force....

Ehud Olmert

When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.

Eduardo Galeano

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

Eddie Rickenbacker

The smallest amount of vanity is fatal in aeroplane fighting. Selfdistrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence.

Eddie Rickenbacker

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

Eddie Rickenbacker

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

Joseph Joubert

Fight your battles with words, not fists

Alexis Arguello

Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.

Alexis Arguello

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

Alexis Arguello

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

Alexis Carrel

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

Alexis Carrel

Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

Yelawolf

'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

Joe Biden

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Shalrie Joseph

We didn't play our best, we didn't finish our chances, but this team never quits. We keep fighting to the end. We never give up until the final whistle blows.

We are going to try. We are going to go kicking and screaming and fighting all the way. It's for our kids.

Woodrow Wilson

The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause which they did not pretend was peculiarly their own, which they knew was the cause of humanity and mankind. These Americans gave the greatest of all gifts, the gift of life and the gift of spirit.

Walter Benjamin

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.

Walter Benjamin

When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

Walter Benjamin

White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

Walter Benjamin

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

Le Corbusier

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

We did what we had to do to win. We are fighting for that third playoff spot and the kids worked hard for the victory.

We are not engrossed in total sunshine, but we're in good shape. We have a pretty good set of sunshine laws. The problem is fighting off exceptions. Every time the Legislature meets, there are exemptions considered. Accumulation of exemptions is our great potential problem.

Alan Cohen

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.

Alan Cohen

The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.

When you're out fighting a fire for hours and hours with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, maybe before you left you didn't have your breakfast, its a great place for them to be able to get something.

Albert Einstein

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

Albert Einstein

It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

Alfred Rosenberg

Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.

Alfred Jarry

It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.