Fighting Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Evil, Confusion, Battle

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

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• Researchers in the U.K. have developed a vegetable called "super broccoli" designed to fight heart disease. Not to be outdone, researchers in America have developed a way to stuff an Oreo inside another Oreo.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Heart, Vegetables, America

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• I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

  Auguste Rodin

  Age, Spirit, Contradiction

  "Rodin freed human spirit". The Des Moines Register, January 7, 2007.

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• I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Spring, Law, Evil

  James Weldon Johnson, “Brothers”

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• The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.

  Lord Acton

  Evil, Giving, Temptation

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

  Alain de Botton

  Order, Alcohol, Pay

  Alain de Botton (2009). “The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

  Chinua Achebe

  Running, Coward, May

  Chinua Achebe (1986). “Arrow of God”, p.50, Heinemann

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• I would be wonderful with a 100-year moratorium on literature talk, if you shut down all literature departments, close the book reviews, ban the critics. The readers should be alone with the books, and if anyone dared to say anything about them, they would be shot or imprisoned right on the spot. Yes, shot. A 100-year moratorium on insufferable literary talk. You should let people fight with the books on their own and rediscover what they are and what they are not. Anything other than this talk.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Years, People

  "'It No Longer Feels a Great Injustice That I Have to Die'". Interview with Martin Krasnik, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2005.

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• Believe, obey, fight.

  Benito Mussolini

  Believe

  Benito Mussolini (1949). “Memoirs, 1942-43: With Documents Relating to the Period”

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• Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

  Ho Chi Minh

  War, Struggle, Independent

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• You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!

  David Giuntoli

  Thinking, Differences, World

  Source: collider.com

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• People are disappearing from movies, and normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies... You are not always fighting a creature in life. That's part of life, it's a pretty big part of life, but it's not all of life.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Behaviour, Normal

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

  Robert Hilburn

  People, Inspire, Sorrow

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.

  Mike Tyson

  People, Robbing, Stage

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

  Channing Tatum

  Guy, Tough, Fighter

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.

  Channing Tatum

  Men, Thinking, Soldier

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a lot of underground type of fighting going on and some of it is not safe, it's pretty brutal. But it's absolutely fascinating.

  Channing Tatum

  Safe, Type, Brutal

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• That sounds stupid, but in most films that take six months, you're actually spending four weeks to do a fight scene.

  Tom Sturridge

  Stupid, Pms, Four

  Source: collider.com

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• If you know Hillary Clinton, you know this is a woman who has never shied away from a fight.

  Karen Finney

  Clinton, Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.

  Woody Allen

  Want, Buying, Tickets

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

  Semir Zeki

  Morality, Biology, Ends

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• People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem.

  Teresa Amabile

  Time, Creativity, People

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• Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.

  Terence Winter

  Games, Office, Superhero

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• Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?'

  Eugene Jarecki

  War, Thinking, Iraq

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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