Fighting famous quotes
03-24-2025
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Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?
-- A Fine Frenzy -
We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.
-- A. D. Gordon -
We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.
-- A. G. Gaston -
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
-- A. K. Antony -
Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
-- Aaron Levie -
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
-- Abbe Pierre -
Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.
-- Abbi Glines -
If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
-- Abbi Glines -
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
-- Abdul Kalam -
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.
-- Abdullah Yusuf Ali -
Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.
-- Abdullah Yusuf Ali -
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
-- Abraham Cahan -
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There was the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose with few exceptions, got all of that Church. My wife had some relations in the Presbyterian churches, and some in the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to vote for me because I belonged to no Church, and was suspected of being a Deist and had talked of fighting a duel.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
-- Abraham Verghese -
To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
-- Abu Bakr -
I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
-- Ace Frehley -
I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.
-- Achmat Dangor -
Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.
-- Adam Braun -
I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
-- Adam Brody -
I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.
-- Adam Goucher -
I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.
-- Adam Levine -
I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.
-- Adam Michnik -
Regarding stickyfish teams, I favor the Bigfield Fighting Koobish.
-- Adam Rex -
Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.
-- Adam Young -
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
-- Adela Florence Nicolson -
When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
QUOTES BOUQUET: You Have To Fight Through Some Bad Days To Earn The Best Days Of Your Life
-- Adnan -
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation
-- Adolf Hitler -
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
-- Adolf Hitler -
I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other
-- Adolf Hitler -
The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.
-- Adolf Hitler -
We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine.
-- Adolf Hitler -
He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.
-- Adolf Hitler -
What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.
-- Adolf Hitler -
For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality...
-- Adrian Carton de Wiart -
Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.
-- Adriana Lima -
Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.
-- Adrien Broner -
We’ll fight Pacquiao, I’ll stop this fight [Carlos Molina] to fight Pacquiao. What would I got to do?
-- Adrien Broner -
I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.
-- Adrien Broner -
I'm very flexible. I've got flexibility in any weight class. If you guys out there want to fight me man, I will fight you guys.
-- Adrien Broner -
I knew coming into this to fight that this was going to be a world class fight, but I knew he didn't have the skills to beat me.
-- Adrien Broner -
Ay Rios, you want to fight at 140? We can fight at 140. You're chubby, I just seen you in Vegas, you were chubby, your ears were chubby.
-- Adrien Broner -
I'm young. I'm 22. I'm still growing. I just feel like it's time for me to go up. After this fight, there really wouldn't be a reason for me to stay. I'm just going to go up and give the lightweights hell.
-- Adrien Broner -
There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.
-- African Spir -
Don't get caught up on 'I'm brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.' You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492? All these names we're using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
-- Agatha Christie -
People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.
-- Agnes Denes -
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
-- Agnes Smedley -
With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella -
The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
-- Ai Weiwei -
They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people’s egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don’t hurt the people close to you.
-- Ai Yazawa -
If you don't fight for him, you lose! Fight for him! ~Nana Osaki
-- Ai Yazawa -
As expected life isn't that sweet at all. When I came to Tokyo I thought I could achieve anything with my own two hands. It's not like that. To get something in these hands, I have to fight a horrible fight. But... there's not much time to grab the things you want with your hands. Why is that? And more importantly what is that I want?
-- Ai Yazawa -
I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.
-- Aisha Tyler -
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.
-- Al Franken -
You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.
-- Al Goldstein -
I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing. I called him over and told him about it. He told me that in the back there's a tank they keep the lobsters in and while they're in there, they fight and sometimes one loses a claw. I told him 'then bring me a winner.'
-- Al McGuire -
When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!
-- Al McGuire -
The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
-- Al Sharpton -
Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.
-- Alain Bombard -
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
-- Alain de Botton -
I am not a star. I am an actor. I have been fighting for years to make people forget that I am just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I will win it. I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'
-- Alain Delon -
The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
-- Alan Cohen -
You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.
-- Alan Cohen -
God's irony: that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb!
-- Alan Keyes -
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
-- Alan King -
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
-- Alan Paton -
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.
-- Alan Shepard -
If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.
-- Alan Sillitoe -
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.
-- Alan Watts -
So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
-- Alanis Obomsawin
