Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olivia De Havilland

Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?

Oliver Sacks

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?

Olga Korbut

I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.

Olga Kurylenko

No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

O. J. Simpson

If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.

Octavia Butler

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Octavio Paz

To fight evil is to fight ourselves.

Novala Takemoto

There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle

Novak Djokovic

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

Novak Djokovic

When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, ‘great fight,’ and that’s all.

Emilie Autumn

If you're going to die, then die. If you are going to live, then fight.

Ellen Malcolm

EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.

Ellen Goodman

I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.

Eric Roberts

I'm really good with fighting with my feet.

Eric Schlosser

I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair and fight through the difficult patches. As long as you're at the desk, and you're willing to fight it out, eventually the right words will come.

Eric Schmidt

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

Epictetus

Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.

Epictetus

Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.

Epictetus

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Emily Dickinson

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

Elliott Smith

Fights problems with bigger problems.

Ellen Tauscher

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

Ellen Page

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

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.