Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Jennings Bryan

I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.

Virginia Woolf

I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

Virginia Woolf

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Woody Guthrie

All of you cowboys, fight for your land.

Woodrow Wilson

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

Woodrow Wilson

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Woodrow Wilson

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

Woodrow Wilson

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

Woodrow Wilson

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

Woodrow Wilson

In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.

Woodrow Wilson

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Saint Augustine

Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

Yasser Arafat

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

Witold Gombrowicz

If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

Wladimir Klitschko

I think a fight with David Haye, even if he is not American, is going to give positive vibes about the heavyweight division for the American fans and fans worldwide.

Wladimir Klitschko

I have decided to make a personal message to David Haye. I want him to fight me, to be a man. I wish there will be enough excitement, pressure and courage for David Haye to fight me.

Wladimir Klitschko

I would say that Roger Federer is pretty amazing. And Manny Pacquiao - he's such a tiny, little lightweight guy, but the way he fights makes people so excited.

Wladimir Klitschko

All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it.

Wladimir Klitschko

I respect the IBF obligation to fight Povetkin, but I would like the exception to fight David Haye. That is the only title the Klitschkos don't have. We have them all except the WBA, which is why Haye is such an interesting cookie for me to eat.

Wladimir Klitschko

I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.

Wladimir Klitschko

In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.

Wladimir Klitschko

You can take your fitness seriously, but not yourself. That's the most difficult part: not to relax. That's the most difficult challenge I'm facing every fight.

Wladimir Klitschko

Earlier in my career, I never thought of boxing as a chess game, but I confirm that they are, in fact, very similar. You can plan your fights and strategy just like you would in chess.

Wladimir Klitschko

He [Tyson Fury] will be difficult opponent to adjust to, because of his style of fighting and physical conditions. Fans will certainly not be bored.

Wislawa Szymborska

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Wislawa Szymborska

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

Will Self

Because I was a young man so, of course, I did get into fights. The last time I actually was in a fight, in the sense of throwing punches myself, was probably when I was at college, not since 1980. But I remember being attacked quite a few times in the '80s.

Will Rogers

The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.

Will Rogers

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

Wes Moore

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

W. Averell Harriman

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

W. E. B. Du Bois

This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization in America as a Black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

Zora Neale Hurston

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.