Fighting Quotes - Page 37

• Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Ideas, Water, Shelter

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.423, Spectra

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• Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fate, Wish, Comfort

  Christopher Paolini (2011). “Inheritance: Book Four”, p.688, Random House

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• Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

  Charles Stross

  Pay, Had Enough, Demon

  Charles Stross (2010). “Overtime: A Tor.Com Original”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

  Erik Naggum

  Rights, Europe, Stuff

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• What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Our World, Trying

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• It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Hard Work, Writing

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• When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Gun, Thinking, Want

  "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.

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• They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly, they don't want to be blamed for spending the Social Security surplus on non-Social Security problems.

  Robert Reischauer

  Two, Want, Blame

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• We are all frustrated with computers, all the time... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.

  Wade Guyton

  Technology, Parent, Frustrated

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• They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Military, Real, Fate

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009.

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• I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though the reasons for it are clear, and though we will continue to fight until we are ordered to stop--and probably for a while after that--none of us can remember the hate that led us here. We are simply fighting to survive the war. It is a strange place to be at fifteen, bereft of hope and very nearly of your humanity. But that is where I am nonetheless.

  Chris Abani

  War, Hate, Years

  Chris Abani (2015). “Song For Night”, p.5, Saqi

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• Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

  Richard Llewellyn

  People, Causes, Benefits

  Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.

  David Graham Phillips

  Honor, Lawyer, Fees

  David Graham Phillips (1905). “The Deluge”

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• Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Letting Go, Evil, Needs

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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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• Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Civilization, Names, White

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Jesus, Giving Up, Kind

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• The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Animal, Self

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• Whenever you start-give it your best. The opportunities are there to be anything you want to be. But wanting to be someone isn't enough; dreaming about it isn't enough; thinking about it isn't enough. You've got to study for it, work for it, fight for it with all your heart and soul, because nobody is going to hand it to you.

  Colin Powell

  Dream, Heart, Opportunity

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• Creativity builds upon the public domain. The battle that we're fighting now is about whether the public domain will continue to be fed by creative works after their copyright expires. That has been our tradition but that tradition has been perverted in the last generation. We're trying to use the Constitution to reestablish what has always been taken for granted--that the public domain would grow each year with new creative work.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Taken, Creativity, Years

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• Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  War, Turkeys, People

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• I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting.

  Michael Irvin

  Sports, Boys, Upset

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• A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.

  Christopher Paolini

  War, Winning, Men

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1968, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You consume me I don't even fight Oh, I feel intoxicated... But beware I bite.

  Traci Lords

  Feels, Bites, Intoxicated

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• One of the reasons I'm lucky is to be around an owner like Jerry Jones. I'm not just saying it. The reality of it is the guy wants to win. As a quarterback, you need ownership and people in the front office and organization to help you win. If you don't get that help, you're always going to be fighting an uphill battle. You feel that, being a part of this organization with Jerry, that he's going to bring in people and sign people and want to improve this football team every year. It allows you to feel like, hey, we have a chance and I have a chance to do some special things around here.

  Tony Romo

  Football, Team, Winning

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