Fighting Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• At the height of rush hour, people on the London underground actually say "excuse me." Imagine what would happen if you tried an insane stunt like that on the New York City subway. The other passengers would take it as a sign of weakness, and there'd be a fight over who got to keep your ears as a trophy.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, New York, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.104, Crown Archetype

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• Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Past, Relaxation

  Twitter post from Dec 26, 2012

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• Uncertainty as to our relationship to God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the pith out of him. He cannot fight; he cannot run. He is easily dismayed, and gives way. He can do nothing for God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Running, Men, Giving

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• The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.

  Ayn Rand

  Challenges, Ineptitude, Way

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• To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Battle, Allies

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• The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience.

  Evander Holyfield

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Holyfield: 'I just believe that I can'". Interview with Bryan Armen Graham, www.si.com. January 21, 2011.

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• If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.

  John Stark

  War, Sunshine, Giving

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• One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

  Henry Louis Gates

  White, People, Black

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• If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Children, Men, Race

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.146, 谷月社

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• I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.

  Tim Robbins

  New York, Honesty, Attitude

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• There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Doors, Two, Feelings

  "This much I know" by Malcolm Mclaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

  Susie Orbach

  Children, Views, Parent

  "In messy divorces, somebody has to be grown up and it's not the children" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.

  Anne Perry

  War, Believe, Loss

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• What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.

  Charles A. Murray

  Differences, Parent, Black

  Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books

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• I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.

  Jim Courier

  Team, People, Tennis

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• I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.

  Alastair Campbell

  Country, Book, Writing

  "How I got happy and stayed grumpy" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

  Ben Okri

  People, Share

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