Fighting Quotes - Page 29

• [Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

  Charles James Fox

  Causes, Advantage

  "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 167), 1997.

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• The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.

  Armand Hammer

  Art, Relaxation, World

  1987 Hammer, Witness to History, his autobiography.

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• The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Lightning, Slender

  Pauline Kael (2011). “5001 Nights at the Movies”, p.221, Macmillan

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• We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Fire, Blood, Sea

  Wall Street Journal, November 14, 1969.

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• You are either with us or you are against us in the fight against terror.

  George W. Bush

  Terror

  "President Welcomes President Chirac to White House". Remarks and Q&A, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 6, 2001.

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• History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.

  Georg Brandes

  Running, Teacher, Men

  "An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism" by Georg Brandes, 1889.

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• There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair

  Kim Wilde

  Heart, Sadness, Confusion

  Song: School Girl, Album: Another Step

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• In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night

  Kim Wilde

  Strong, Night, Giving

  Song: Hold On

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• You can fight against people, and fight to the death, but ... can't control the world.

  Mariah Carey

  People, World

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• See thou, whatsoever be thy name -- whether Fate, Life, or Devil! I cast thee down my gauntlet, I challenge thee to battle! Men of faint heart may bow before thy mysterious power, thy face of stone may inspire them with dread, in thy unbroken silence they may discern the birth of calamity and an impending avalanche of woe. But I am daring and strong, and I challenge thee to battle! Let us draw our swords, and join our bucklers, and rain such blows upon each other's crests as shall cause the very earth to shake again! Ha! Come forth and fight with me!

  Leonid Andreyev

  Strong, Rain, Heart

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• AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor. No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling - because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.

  Laura Bush

  Country, Men, Race

  Mrs. Bush's Remarks at United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 02, 2006.

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• The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Healing, Men

  Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 88

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• Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Extremes

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1209, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.

  William James

  Believe, Fire, Common Sense

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.284, Harvard University Press

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• I've never felt Truth was Beauty. Never. I've always felt that people can't take too much reality. I like being in Ingmar Bergman's world. Or in Louis Armstrong's world. Or in the world of the New York Knicks. Because it's not this world. You spend your whole life searching for a way out. You just get an overdose of reality, you know, and it's a terrible thing. I'm always fighting against reality.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Reality, People

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• For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

  Plato

  Army, Men, Desire

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.80

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• I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

  George Orwell

  Men, Class, Unions

  "The Road to Wigan Pier". Book by George Orwell (Diary 6-10 February), March 8, 1937.

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• Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

  Martin Luther

  Devil, Monsters, Boisterous

  Quoted in Vincent Cronin The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969).

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• I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

  Arnold Palmer

  Cancer, Thinking, Government

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• Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  War, Victory, Gone

  Interview with James Cameron, Picture Post, October 28, 1950.

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• The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Sea, Paris

  Quoted in J. Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946)

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• You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

  Jack Kerouac

  Cities, Names, Halls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. That is what I meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.

  Margaret Mead

  Real, War, Men

  "Remarks about the Military Draft" by Margaret Mead (June 1968) as quoted in "Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views" edited by Rhoda Metraux (pp. 35-36), 1979.

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• Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.

  Lyman Abbott

  Thinking, Corruption

  Lyman Abbott (1899). “The Life that Really is”

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• It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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