Combativeness Quotes

#1. Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

Albert Goodwill Spalding

#2. Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#3. When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

Gaspard Ulliel

#4. Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

Richard Bach

#5. Understanding comes through communication, and through communication we find the way to peace.

Ralph C. Smedley

#6. As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.

Emraan Hashmi

#7. An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Alain De Lille

#8. You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle.

Jean Cocteau

#9. Then, the clock caught her eye, 12:11 PM.

Aleatha Romig

#10. Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

Ansel Adams

#11. I'd heard a Catholic nun on TV once saying that bearing suffering was the route to grace. I remembered Fluff saying: If there's a God he's addicted to faith. Because without evil there's no need for faith. I can't get excited about a God who's divinity depends on a drug habit.

Glen Duncan

#12. It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

Mary Antin

#13. Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Alex North