Quotes About Fighting

#1. When they return home from serving our country, our National Guard and Reserve members shouldn't have to be confronted with red tape in order to access the benefits they've earned fighting for our country.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#2. It's just me and the Bane. And I'm fighting him because he killed all of those innocent mice and people, and I have to stop him. Not because Sandwich says so but because I say so.

Suzanne Collins

#3. Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

Jeff Ament

#4. America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.

Arthur Goldberg

#5. You know, if you didn't pay close attention, you'd think we were the only people in Iraq and the only people fighting the terrorists.

Johnny Isakson

#6. Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.

Oliver Reed

#7. Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.

Janet Morris

#8. I don't want to talk about it anymore," I said, focusing on the dashboard in front of me to prevent the tears that filled my eyes from falling. "Please don't ask me again." Then I got out of the car. I closed the door and didn't look back, fighting the newly created anxiety in my belly.

Erin Dionne

#9. A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in a modern economy and a democracy where working people's voices are actually heard. That is what we are fighting for in this election.

Hillary Clinton

#10. Fighting lets ye both say wha' needs to be said. Just be sure you fight clean, and dinna bring up old hurts or blame one another.

Karen Hawkins

#11. In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death.

Kenneth De Guzman

#12. Death is my art form--when I fight, I'm a ballerina. Graceful. Chi lacks my grace, but makes up for it in energy and enthusiasm. His fighting style is like breakdancing--strong and frenetic with some really sweet moves. Jo's is . . .the Macarena. Ugly but gets the job done.

Eliza Crewe

#13. The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

R. Lee Ermey

#14. Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.

Amy Klobuchar

#15. He wouldn't have much of a life out there, picking through garbage dumps and fighting off scavengers, but at least he'd be in charge of himself again.

Margaret Atwood

#16. The Arabs have a God, the Jews have another, and the Catholics have another! And they're all fighting to maintain that they worship the one real God. Idiots!

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#17. I was just an ordinary player with a big heart and a fighting spirit to recommend me.

Sean Fallon

#18. The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards the centre of the stage, life went on fighting for equal rights.

Salman Rushdie

#19. She smiles, but her eyes are glassy, like a dormant part of her is fighting its way out and spilling over. The train hisses over the rails, a tear drops down Tris's cheek, and the city disappears into the darkness.

Veronica Roth

#20. I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore ... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people ... I wish they could get their money back.

Mike Tyson

#21. She's mine. I'm hers. It's that simple. Truthfully, that's how it's always been. Neither of us are fighting anymore.

J.J. McAvoy

#22. I knew then that I'd give in if he asked. All this fighting-this resisting-it was just because deep down, I knew that all he had to do as say the words and I'd be putty in his hands. Yeah, he could be smug and an all-around ass, but...I still wanted him. Bad. In a way I'd never experienced before.

Kelley R. Martin

#23. 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

#24. Bards sing songs and act girly. Thus, they're kind of useless in a fight, but make good support characters. Kind of half wizard half healer with a bit of skills master and warrior thrown in. If you want to be a super famous rock star in the Middle Ages, but suck at fighting, play a Bard.

David Dostaler

#25. I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.

Alexis Arguello

#26. I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.

Uzodinma Iweala

#27. He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will surely be defeated.

Sun Tzu

#28. Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.

Robert A. Heinlein

#29. Don't be so sure,' Cassie said. 'We're fighting for Mother Earth. She has some tricks up her sleeves.'
'Good grief,' Marco said. 'Let's all buy Birkenstocks and go hug some trees.

Katherine Applegate

#30. Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

Hillary Clinton

#31. Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.

Marla Maples

#32. My dear boy, in Ireland the midwife uses one hand to hold the baby's best fighting arm from the font water, and grips its jaws with the other lest the goes to litigation about it. Says O'LiamRoe

Dorothy Dunnett

#33. If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

Galen Rowell

#34. Humanity is worse than flies. If even one dried nugget of offal survives the flames, we'll be swarming all over it. Fighting about who owns it and selling the most fragrant chunks to the wealthy and the gullible.

Joe Hill

#35. 216. Jihaad (holy fighting in Allaah's Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allaah knows but you do not know.

Anonymous

#36. Not everyone can or will love you. You could run a cotton candy and unicorn farm and someone's gonna think you're an asshole. Everyone's fighting their own battle and it often has nothing to do with you.

Kathryn Budig

#37. Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#38. Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

Bo Bennett

#39. I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace.

Richard Cobden

#40. Our servants (weaker nations) are becoming our masters. You have my word: As long as there is life in me, I will spend the rest of my days fighting to restore the lost sovereignty of the United States ...

Pat Buchanan

#41. A good marriage is worth fighting for.

Lisa Jacobson

#42. If it's not worth fighting for, run from it, because it's certainly not worth having in your life.

Christopher Mark Heben

#43. What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue.

Jared Taylor

#44. It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

Homer

#45. The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning.

Jack Weatherford

#46. I'm fighting now only for individual captive dolphins and dolphins in general but also for people, for the mind and sensibilities of future generations toward the world itself.

Richard O'Barry

#47. Instincts were his first line of defense. His body was his second. He trained it, kept it in fighting shape, just as he did any other weapon.

Pamela Clare

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

Teresa Amabile

#49. I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing ... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.

Jane Siberry

#50. Doubt was probably a sickness he was born with, and fighting against it was his lot in life ...

Andreas Eschbach

#51. And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.

Julian Grenfell

#52. We just kept hanging in and fighting.

Troy Brown

#53. You know, I've tried staying away from you. I've tried ignoring how I feel about you, which isn't how I should feel. But it's like fighting a losing battle. And I don't want to fight it anymore. I don't want to ignore this.

J. Lynn

#54. The truth is always an abyss. One must - as in a swimming pool - dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again - laughing and fighting for breath - to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Franz Kafka

#55. We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need - reliable insurance policies; affordable health care; safe, healthy food.

Shoshana Zuboff

#56. The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

Pierre De Coubertin

#57. For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

Larry Wall

#58. True love is actually very hard to understand ... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love ... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs

Yuu Watase

#59. We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.

S.E. Hinton

#60. What we are fighting isn't godlessness
this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines ... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

Abraham Verghese

#61. My guilty pleasure is competitive cooking reality shows. I don't like cooking shows when it's just about cooking. It has to be competitive - they're fighting and yelling at each other. I am obsessed with those shows, and I have no idea why.

Justice Smith

#62. You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

A.G. Howard

#63. Fighting to fit in. Confidence is paper thin.

Tony Alfonso

#64. It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.

Zinedine Zidane

#65. The best fantasy writer are the ones that stopped fighting with their inner demons, and started writing about them.

Solomon Woytowich

#66. Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

Noam Chomsky

#67. Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power ...

Janet Morris

#68. You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.

Christopher Cross

#69. I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

Jeremy Renner

#70. That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...

Plutarch

#71. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance.

Matthew Kelly

#72. The only complicated things worth fighting for will change the world in some way and/or make you lots of money, and a complicated relationship will only keep you from doing either.

Ingrid Weir

#73. I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

Ingemar Stenmark

#74. Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

Rollo May

#75. The music was Tamlin's fingers strumming my body; it was the gold in his eyes and the twist of his smile. It was that breathy chuckle, and the way he said those three words. It was this I was fighting for, this I had sworn to save.

Sarah J. Maas

#76. Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

Sean Paul

#77. I'm pretty sure that my Restless Leg Syndrome is simply caused my body just fighting the urge to RUN AWAY!

Tanya Masse

#78. Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone's head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children ...

Amilcar Cabral

#79. 'Unicorn Island' is the synonym for my happy place. It's a really beautiful message: that happiness is one of the hardest things you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

Lilly Singh

#80. The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

John Muir

#81. Imagine fighting for a country where the only civilian you know is a Chinese laundryman!

Kurt Vonnegut

#82. America, my dear, I do hope you find something in this cage worth fighting for. After all this, I can only imagine what it would be like to see you actually try.

Kiera Cass

#83. It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

John Buchan

#84. You just have to dream. You have to dream until your knuckles are bloody from fighting for it and white from holding on to it. It doesn't matter what other people think or say-- what matters is your dream.

Lynn Titus

#85. So many stories inside of me...fighting to be free....

Kim Morris

#86. Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

Larry David

#87. I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

Lorraine Bracco

#88. It's always tough when you're fighting with your husband on the court.

Li Na

#89. I don't want to watch people fighting.

Ilana Glazer

#90. Every war has its martyrs - the unsung heroes who sometimes don't even know the rationale behind the war they are fighting. They fight because they are trained to, kill because they are told to and die because they are destined to.

Anurag Shourie

#91. Easy things aren't worth much. Your hand in mine is worth a great deal, Leticia." he said, helping to my feet. "That's what I'll be fighting for tomorrow.

Delilah S. Dawson

#92. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting. The subject

Erich Maria Remarque

#93. The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.

I. F. Stone

#94. I thought of all the times I had insisted being with Travis was the wrong decision, and how much time I had wasted fighting my feelings for him. Looking across the table at his soft, brown eyes, and the dimple dancing in his cheek as he chewed, I couldn't remember what I was so worried about.

Jamie McGuire

#95. I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

S.E. Hinton

#96. But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Philip Gibbs

#97. It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

Ernest Hemingway,

#98. As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

Damien Chazelle

#99. All suicides have the responsibility of fighting against the temptation of suicide. Every one of them knows very well in some corner of his soul that suicide, though a way out, is rather a mean and shabby one, and that it is nobler and finer to be conquered by life than to fall by one's own hand.

Hermann Hesse

#100. Time hasn't been kind."
"Time never is. A fighter keeps fighting even so. Thought you were a fighter?

Joe Abercrombie