Fighting Quotes - Page 31

• I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Children, World, Proud

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• The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Long, Sides, Argument

  "An Author and his Image: The Collected Short Pieces". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1997.

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• If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?

  Tom Clancy

  Believe, Hero, Giving

  Tom Clancy (2010). “Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan”, p.2366, Penguin

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• Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription being proposed or introduced. Thus would be provided a most favourable political platform upon which to fight the National Government.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Effort, Political

  "Your Alternative Government" by Talus, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (p. 36), 1945.

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• One night, I was lying in bed, and I was channel surfing between reality TV programs and actual war coverage. On one channel, there's a group of young people competing for I don't even know; and on the next, there's a group of young people fighting in an actual war. I was really tired, and the lines between these stories started to blur in a very unsettling way. That's the moment when Katniss's story came to me.

  Suzanne Collins

  War, Lying, Tired

  "A Killer Story: An Interview with Suzanne Collins, Author of ‘The Hunger Games’ | Under Cover". Interview with Rick Margolis, www.slj.com. September 1, 2008.

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• Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery .

  Samuel R. Delany

  Country, People, Technique

  Samuel R. Delany (1982). “The Jewels of Aptor”, Bantam Books

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• The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.

  Walter Millis

  Strong, War, Character

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• Those who start wars, never fight them, And those who fight wars, they never like them...

  Michael Franti

  War, Start Wars

  "Song: Time to Go Home (Yell Fire)". July 25, 2006.

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• So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?

  Robert Fisk

  Morning, Successful, Army

  "Robert Fisk: The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2003.

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• It's time to refocus our global fight against terrorism. We must move away from the Iraq-centric policies that are draining our resources and focus on Al Qaeda and its affiliates who are reportedly operating in some 60 to 80 countries around the world.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Moving, Iraq

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• No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.

  David Gemmell

  War, Winning, Matter

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 8, 1985.

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• Kings are chosen by the Source, so it is said. [...] Therefore those who fight for the king can be said to be godly. Is that not cause enough?

  David Gemmell

  Kings, Godly, Causes

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, "Rigante series", Ch. 2, 2002.

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• All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.

  David Gemmell

  Writing, Men, Different

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.133, Hachette UK

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• Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

  David Gemmell

  War, People, Greed

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 9, 1985.

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• Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.

  David Gemmell

  White, Evil, Black

  David Gemmell (2011). “The King Beyond The Gate”, p.101, Hachette UK

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• Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Hard Times, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Every day Americans and their families need a champion, a champion who will fight for them every single day. And I want to be that champion. I want to get up every single day going to work for you, standing up for you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Champion, Needs, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.

  Mike Tyson

  War, Kids, Perspective

  Source: collider.com

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• Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle.

  Clint Eastwood

  Writing, Important, Battle

  "Clint Eastwood, Cast, and Writers Talk JERSEY BOYS, Adapting the Broadway Musical, Finding the Actors, the Clever Director Cameo, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 24, 2014.

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• People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.

  Benjamin Walker

  Divorce, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I saw my job [as president] as to try to move the world from an unstable condition of interdependence toward more integrated cooperative world community. Therefore, my approach was to cooperate wherever possible and to build institutions of cooperation, an expanded NATO, the World Trade Organization, the Summit of the Americas, the Asian Pacific Leaders, all those, the coalition to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo, to cooperate wherever possible but to act alone if we had to.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Moving, Organization

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• I think if we have a policy of zero violence, it won't be met, but the policy of getting the Iraqis in the fight and marginalizing those who are trying to stir up trouble will be effective.

  George W. Bush

  Zero, Thinking, Trying

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• We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it likes. We don't actually need 'religion' in order to have a relationship with The Holy Spirit. Too many wars an violence over religion.We need to see it's all the same spirit and we are part of that spirit so we shouldn't be fighting over what name we call it. It's a free bird.

  Sinead O'Connor

  War, Order, Land

  "Sinead O'Connor on Pope Benedict and Catholic abuse scandal". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 26, 2010.

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• When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.

  David E. Hoffman

  Real, Challenges, Eras

  "Ronald Reagan Dies". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 6, 2004.

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• The United States of course wants to follow the highest standards of conduct with regard to enemy combatants who follow the rules of war. It should and does follow the Geneva Conventions scrupulously when fighting the armed forces of other nations that have signed the Geneva Conventions or follow their principles.

  John Yoo

  War, Enemy, Want

  "John Yoo: National security, executive power and the war on terrorism". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. March 3, 2010.

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