Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

William Least Heat-Moon

The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.

William Booth

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight...

William Booth

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

Walter Scott

In the name of God!" said Gurth, "how came they prisoners? and to whom?" "Our master was too ready to fight," said the Jester, "and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all.

Walter Scott

I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.

Walter Scott

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus fights imitation, inferior craftsmanship and artistic dilettantism

Vladimir Putin

There is nothing in common between al-Assad and ISIS, they fight against each other.

Vladimir Putin

I'm still the same. Take the fight against terrorism: after the attacks of September 11, I was the first to side with US President [George W.] Bush. And now, after the attacks in Paris, I have done the same with the President of France,[Oliver] Hollande. Terrorism threatens us all.

Vladimir Putin

One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining efforts in the fight against terrorism and other similar challenges: countering drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting famine, preserving environment and biodiversity, taking efforts to make the world more predictable, more stable.

Vladimir Putin

We should cooperate much more closely in fighting terrorism, which is a great challenge.

Vladimir Putin

Today, terrorism threatens a great number of states, a great number of people - hundreds of thousands, millions of people suffer from its criminal activity. And we all face the task of joining our efforts in the fight against this common evil.

Vladimir Putin

I insist that people - wherever they live - have their rights and they must be able to fight for them.

Vladimir Putin

We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories, regional and local authorities are still competing with each other, competing for power. Those who take advantage of disorder and arbitrary rule are watching their mutually destructive fight.

Vladimir Putin

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

William Morris

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

Yingluck Shinawatra

I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

Yochai Benkler

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

Yitzhak Shamir

Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.

Yitzhak Rabin

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

Yitzhak Rabin

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.

Yitzhak Rabin

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.

Winona LaDuke

Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.

Winston Churchill

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

Winston Churchill

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

Winston Churchill

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Winston Churchill

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Willie Aames

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

William Safire

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

William Kristol

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.