Fighting Quotes - Page 7

• In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

  Franz Kafka

  Funny, Literature, World

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• Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

  Aleister Crowley

  Nature, People, Drunk

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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• V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

  Doc Hastings

  Japan, Victory, Surrender

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• It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

  Henry James

  Responsibility, Fate, Europe

  Henry James (2013). “Daisy Miller and An International Episode”, p.22, OUP Oxford

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• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Impact, Political

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• The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Struggle, Japan, Democracy

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• Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Choices, Patriotism, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

  Jeremy Riddle

  Song, Singing, Victory

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2014

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• It's not bragging if you can back it up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Sports, Greatness, Boxing

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2011

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• Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Military, Hero, Bravery

  1936 Ashley Wilkes. Gone with the Wind, ch.31.

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• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

  Stuart Scott

  Death, Courage, Art

  "ESPN Sportscaster Stuart Scott Dies At 49". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. January 4, 2015.

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• The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

  Jake LaMotta

  Funny, Boxing, Comedian

  "Jake LaMotta - a life in pictures" by Daffydd Bynon, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2017.

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• For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

  James Mattis

  Life, Country, Military

  "Eve of Battle Speech". "The Weekly Standard" Magazine, March 1, 2003.

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• A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata are not some kind of beautiful competitive dance, but a grand martial art of self-defense - which determines life and death.

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Beautiful, Art, Self

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• I'm a lover not a fighter.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Romantic, Basketball

  Song: The Girl Is Mine W Paul Mccartney, Album: Thriller, 1982

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• At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Grateful, Winning

  "Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany". Book by Stephen Ambrose, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

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• I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.

  Jason Statham

  Art, Kids, Kind

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• My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Goal, Trying

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• I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Doe, Study, Professors

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• It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Mean, Numbers, People

  Mercedes Lackey (1991). “By the Sword”, p.158, Penguin

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• I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.

  Robert Quine

  Thinking, Guitar, Generations

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• My life is a life of accepting what the universe has offered me... I don't fight the universe.

  Ziggy Marley

  Life, Accepting, Universe

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2014

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• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  Laura Miller

  Cities, Dallas, Worth Fighting For

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• I never met a man I didn't want to fight.

  Lyle Alzado

  Men, Want, Mets

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

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