Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Dunn

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

Karen Allen

Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.

Karel Capek

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

Karel Capek

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Karel Capek

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Katharine McPhee

I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.

Karen Joy Fowler

Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.

Karen Kingsbury

The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.

Justin Sane

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Judy Chu

Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. "I'll kill you." I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. "I don't think so." "She is pack now," Sylvie said. "You fight one of us, and you fight all of us." Edward raised his eyebrows at me. "What is going on, Anita?" "I think I've been adopted," I said.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?

John Kasich

You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting.

John Kasich

We don't have to fight all the time. It can be done, and we will be great when we join together.

John Daly

Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.

Gayle Forman

It's ok if you want to stop fighting.

Gayle Forman

It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.

Lord Acton

The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

Lloyd Doggett

Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Lyndon B. Johnson

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

Luke Evans

Every film, every fight choreographer, wants to have a different flair, have a different fight technique. So any film I've done that involved weapons has always been fascinating because everyone is different.

Ludwig Quidde

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

Luciano Pavarotti

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Louise Penny

Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

Loretta Lynn

I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.

Malala Yousafzai

If you hit a Talib, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib, You must not treat others with cruelty. You must fight others through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Malala Yousafzai

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.