Fighting Quotes - Page 25

• One of the most disruptive forces in the Church is arrogance. It is natural for people to bring their pride to Church, and try to prove their own greatness to others. This is an urge we need to constantly be fighting

  Dan Schilling

  Pride, Greatness, People

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• Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.

  Marcel Theroux

  Hurt, Men, Ideas

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

  John Bolton

  War, Lasts, Politician

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• The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Wall, Animal, Men

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• A peaceful man must fight For that which peace demands,— Freedom and faith, honor and right, Defend with heart and hands.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Peace, Heart, Men

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

  L. Frank Baum

  Winning, Victory, Massacres

  The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, January 3, 1891.

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• I just find that each year I try something new. You can't fight the march of time. To balance that out, each year you should develop one more good habit. It levels the playing field.

  Cindy Crawford

  Balance, Trying, March

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• No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

  Art Buchwald

  Country, War, Men

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.

  Art Buchwald

  Writing, Wife, Use

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• We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Hate, Real, War

  STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

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• Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Knives, Punishment

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.5, Vintage

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• Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

  Jane Haddam

  Writing, Advice, Half

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• Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: "Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is this true of men! If they know there is no alternative, they will fight to the death.

  Sun Tzu

  Men, Enemy, Alternatives

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• In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

  Nikita Khrushchev

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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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• 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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• 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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• '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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