Fighting Quotes - Page 24

• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Bulls, Enormous, Critics

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• Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Butterfly, Self

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8283, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

  Honore de Balzac

  Couple, Blessing, Hands

  Honore de Balzac (1925). “The Physiology of Marriage”, p.29, Library of Alexandria

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• But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.

  E. M. Forster

  Character, Artist, Novelists

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.151, Stanford University Press

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• Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Slavery, Poverty

  Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

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• Under that light rain, beaming in the night game, can't stop now, keep moving, no brake pads. Came here to prove a point, live my life on the field, make history in between the base paths. And compete against the fear that is in me, that's my only barrier and I swear I'm going to break that. From the mud, the cleats that we dragged through the feet, this is that moment and you cannot take it back... This is what you make of it, yeah we play to win, live it like we're under the lights of the stadium. Fight, until the day that God decides to wave us in, right, until he waves us in.

  Macklemore

  Moving, Rain, Winning

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• If humans had nothing to fight for, they would fight for nothing.

  Craig Stone

  Humans, Ifs

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• If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

  Tom Stoppard

  Plates, Left, Ifs

  "Squaring the Circle". Book by Tom Stoppard, 1984.

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• It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

  Karl Marx

  Tired, Hair, Government

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Love You, Eye

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Across the River and Into the Trees”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now .

  Ray Bradbury

  Killers, Martian Chronicles, Amount

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

  Chaka Khan

  World, Fields, Fighter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to provoke a fight and just to provoke it like thumbing your nose at someone else and going, "What are you gonna do about it?"

  David Byrne

  Fun, Cartoon, Noses

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2006.

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• Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.

  Judd Apatow

  Jobs, Kids, People

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

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• Working with Jean-Claude is a lot of fun. Because he's a great actor who also happens to be a fighter. That combination doesn't usually come together anymore. Usually, you have to fight the stunt double and then act against the actor. In his case, you are fighting with a real guy. It takes a minute to get used to that. Because it doesn't happen any more.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Real, Guy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.

  Jenny Hval

  Thinking, Practice, Norway

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.

  Robert Graves

  Hate, Roots, Fruit

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?

  Daron Malakian

  War, President, Poor

  "B.Y.O.B". Song by Daron Malakian, Serj Tankian, 2005.

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• Regarding stickyfish teams, I favor the Bigfield Fighting Koobish.

  Adam Rex

  Team, Favors

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• Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.

  Du Mu

  Strong, Winning, Feet

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• The women has her own battlefield with every child she brings into the world she fights a battle for the nation

  Adolf Hitler

  Children, Battle, World

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• Just to clear the record ive never turn down a mma fight against anyone and never will.

  Jon Jones

  Mma, Records, Clear

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• The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature.

  Carl Jung

  Mother, Father, Risk

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves.

  Peter Drucker

  Two, Body, Unions

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order”, p.180, Routledge

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• That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.

  Miguel

  Brother, Lying, Emotional

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