Fighting Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• 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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• 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 horn of dilemma of energy politics is what really drives concern about this energy in this country, at the gut level for most people, is high gas prices. And if you really want to fight global warming and try to reduce our carbon emissions, the cleanest, easiest, most rational way to do it would to make the price of gas even higher through very stiff gas prices.

  Rich Lowry

  Country, Carbon Emissions, People

  "Senate Passes Energy Bill; Clinton Spoofs 'Sopranos'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. June 22, 2007.

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• Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Men, Average

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.

  Ethan Hawke

  Crazy, Ideas, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince himself that taxing America's Productive Class can restore it to prosperity. In point of fact, it's like screwing for chastity, guzzling alcohol for sobriety, or gorging to fight gluttony. It's like killing indiscriminately for peace - oops, Democrats, Republicans and their moral and spiritual ilk have devoutly believed that particular bit of perverse nonsense since at least the War of 1812.

  L. Neil Smith

  Spiritual, War, Class

  "A Little Austrian Flea". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 01, 2009.

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• Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Butterfly, Self

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8283, Delphi Classics

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• A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.

  Robert Jordan

  Honor, Goats, Cunning

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• God's irony, that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb!

  Alan Keyes

  Airplane, Order, Justice

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Thanksgiving Point, Lehi, Utah, www.keyesarchives.com. September 24, 2002.

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• Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Russia, Long, Territory

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Newsweek interview, July 08, 1991.

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• I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.

  Lee Krasner

  Years, Two, Black

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• Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all.

  Hilda Solis

  Real, Struggle, Justice

  "Immigrant's daughter Solis to lead Labor Dept". International Business Times, December 19, 2008.

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• Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Fashion, Religious, Hands

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• I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Want, Fighter, Being The Best

  Manny Pacquiao's Press Conference, www.boxingscene.com. April 7, 2007.

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• When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like a grizzly with cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. Alaska, as a statewide family, we've got to fight for each other, not against and not let external, sensationalized distractions draw us off course. As an exciting year of unpredictable change begins, we, too, have our work cut out for us. And we're all in this together. Just like our musk ox, they circle up to protect their future when they are challenged. We've got to do the same.

  Sarah Palin

  Mother, Cutting, Alaska

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• Racing is bulging at the seams with pure nutball characters, men who can drink more, screw more, fight more, laugh more, joke more, than practically any collection of people in the world.

  Brock Yates

  Character, Men, People

  Brock Yates (2004). “NASCAR Off the Record”, p.169, MotorBooks International

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• I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

  Brock Yates

  Sports, Writing, Motor Racing

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• If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  War, Lasts, Next

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.46, Random House

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• Mitt Romney, two-time Republican presidential candidate, is going to fight Evander Holyfield for charity. I hope they save some of that money for funeral expenses.

  David Letterman

  Two, Funeral, Presidential

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• I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Men, Old Man, Happens

  "Calzaghe nicks round one". BBC Sport, February 08, 2008.

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