Quotes and Sayings About Fighting
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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 FrenzySource : Song: Ashes and Wine, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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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 -
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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. TaylorSource : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
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Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
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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 LevieSource : Twitter post from Aug 18, 2012
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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.
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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 -
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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.
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For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
-- Abdul KalamSource : A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.108, Penguin Books India
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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 -
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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 AliSource : Abdullah Yusuf Ali (2004). “The Meaning of the Holy Qu'ran”, Amana Pubns
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Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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You must never tire fighting Satan.
-- Abraham CahanSource : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.41, Courier Corporation
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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.
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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.
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But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
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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.
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I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
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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.
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Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.
-- Adam BraunSource : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
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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 BrodySource : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.