Fighting Quotes

Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

Churches whose members fight with one another have lost their vision for the lost.

You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.

Now working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch.

If you get into a fight and somebody punches you, you get two feelings. One: That really hurts. Two: That relief in the realness of, like, Wow, this is what it is. It's not an intellectual process.

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory.

A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.

Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

If you don’t know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It’s like fight club.

Part of my role at T-Mobile is the ability to just be myself, because I'm 58 years old and I've done very well, and I don't need to fight my way up the hierarchy with my suit and hair anymore.

Republicans and Democrats spend so much time fighting and then they're all aghast, you know, and so it's just not the way we ought to be. The coarseness is not acceptable.

You don't have to worry about the guy that threatens to beat you up. Worry about the guy that shows up on your doorstep, looking for a fight.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.

It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration.

I spent five and a half years in prison. The worst part was coming home and finding out Green Acres had been cancelled. What the hell was I fighting for?

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

The only cowards are sinners; fighting the fight is all.

If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you’ve strangled someone in a bar fight.

As far as bands doing that in a way where they think they're going to fight the government, the only people they're really hurting is the fans.

Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

Never complain about the officiating. It does no good. During the game I don't want to be fighting two opponents.

You know, if you didn't pay close attention, you'd think we were the only people in Iraq and the only people fighting the terrorists.

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

In a fight, you got to know that there's a strong chance you're going to get hurt. But at the same time, you know, most of the injuries you sustain in fighting are not career-ending injuries.

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way.

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.

The President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come."

The American people, or at least the ones that I get on the subway with - they know there's a real threat out there. They felt like Iraq lessened our ability to fight that threat.

I don't think, if anything, I don't think it's a feeling of hopelessness that people feel. I think if they feel - if they're feeling what we're feeling, it's that this is how we fight back.

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.

I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and ultimately footing the bill for the spectacle.