Fighting Quotes - Page 13

• The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Prejudice, Generations

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• I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

  Max Baucus

  Thinking, Bully, Incentives

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• 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 Least Heat-Moon

  Men, Water, Risk

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• I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

  Don DeLillo

  Country, Fall, Cutting

  Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.58, Vintage

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• I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

  Carlos Fuentes

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• The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Two, Differences

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• I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Kings, Military, Animal

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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• To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Passion, Love Life, Love Is

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror.

  George W. Bush

  Important, Terrorism, Inactivity

  "President Welcomes President Chirac to White House". georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 6, 2001.

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• One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Change, Doe, Influence

  Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) (2007). “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism”, p.110, Chicago Review Press

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• True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been hidden. But then the same men, when they have power in their hands at last, began to find the veils useful. They made many more. Life has not changed. Only some people have been growing, becoming different, that is all. After a youth spent fighting the white man, why should not the president discover as he grows older that his real desire has been to be like the white governor himself, to live above all the blackness in the big old slave castle?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Real, Men, White Man

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• A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

  Machado de Assis

  Sea, Strive, Universal

  Machado de Assis, Gregory Rabassa (1998). “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Country, Giving, Decision

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• I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Situation, Pacifist, Feels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Although our fight will be long and hard, our people are resolved to fight till final victory.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Long, People, Victory

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• There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

  Suzanne Vega

  Girl, Hurt

  Suzanne Vega (1999). “The passionate eye: the collected writing of Suzanne Vega”, Avon Books

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• So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
  In this long war beneath the stars;
  So shall a glory wreathe my head,
  So shall I faint and show the scars,
  Until this case, this clogging mould,
  Be smithied all to kingly gold.

  John Masefield

  Stars, War, Struggle

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Catholic, Balls, London

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• 'Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends' (Jn. 15:13). In truth if someone hears an evil saying, that is, one which harms him, and in his turn, he wants to repeat it, he must fight in order not to say it. Or if someone is taken advantage of and he bears it, without retaliation at all, then he is giving his life for his neighbor.

  Poemen

  Christian, Taken, Men

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• My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Brother, Cat

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of words" One fashions by scheming and skill For those who are greedy and warlike, Whose avarice for power cannot cease, Can never contribute in helping To bring this world nearer to peace For in seeking peace for all people There is only one place to begin And that is in each home and heart- For the fortress of peace is within!

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Fashion, Peace, Home

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."

  Nathaniel Branden

  Struggle, Self, Knowing

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such as crying, hiding, or fighting. . . Unless we are taught to face our problems directly and work through them, the pattern of avoidance will be repeated; it can be a natural, accepted way to act.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Children, Encounters, Doe

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• It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Winning, Games, Can't Win

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• And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow, it makes me feel as if the long list of differences between us doesn't exist. We're dressed the same, we fight the same enemy, we win together ... It's as though for that moment I get to be her, the one who isn't covered in thick scars, and she gets to understand what it is to be me. It's different than hunting with Silas-he and I are partners, not part of the same heart.

  Jackson Pearce

  Team, Heart, Winning

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