Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Herrick

It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

Robert Herrick

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

Rick Renzi

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

Rick Perry

I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.

Robin Hobb

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Robert Reischauer

They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.

Robert Reich

Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

Robert Reich

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

Rob Bishop

I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.

Rob Halford

You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.

Richard Paul Evans

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Robert Louis Stevenson

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

Walt Disney

Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.

Walt Disney

The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.

Vitali Klitschko

You talk about me, I am chicken to fight you. That's not true. I bring you dessert on November 12th.

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.

Wilhelm Reich

In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always either distorted or flattened out. The danger, especially of distortion, is particularly great in the case of orgonomy. We must be scientific, we cannot be political in these matters. And I personally declare that I will be the first to fight with all my strength, with whatever I've got against such a distortion of our principles.

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.