Quotes About Fought

#1. I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

Paul Gascoigne

#2. 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

#3. Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!

Abu Bakar Bashir

#4. Fair Maiden Lilliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature but great was her fame; Upon the English loons she laid many thumps, And when her legs were cuttied off she fought upon her stumps.

Nigel Tranter

#5. War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.

John McCain

#6. Why me?" I fought to bring my breathing back to normal.
"You treat me like a person."
"You are a person," I whispered.
"Can I be your person?"
He looked up at me, tears standing in his eyes. I chuckled softly, turned, and tucked him against me. "I think you already are.

D.C. Juris

#7. My sister and I fought a lot when we were kids. I was the little bratty sister, and she would kind of walk away, not wanting to be associated with me.

Annette Bening

#8. Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

Ashwin Sanghi

#9. Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

Mohsin Hamid

#10. Could it have nothing to do with the soldier and everything to do with the type of war now being fought?

David Finkel

#11. Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs

Leslie Caron

#12. I'm sorry, but I stand by my decision. I am now a member of the elite club of people that have fought a professional team mascot. You sir, are not in that club.

Tucker Max

#13. And I refuse to be governed by fear. The life stretching before me is that of a queen. It's a life I chose. Fought for, even. I cannot - will not - squander it on dread.

Rae Carson

#14. It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.

Shekhar Kapur

#15. Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

Jesse Jackson

#16. To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.

P. McCree Thornton

#17. Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality.

Kwame Nkrumah

#18. When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Ruth Reichl

#19. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

Julian Castro

#20. Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them.

Gregory David Roberts

#21. I fought fire with oil.

Dalton Trumbo

#22. No one's going to be interested in a war fought over a, a quite pleasant lady, moderately attractive in a good light. Are they?" Eric was nearly in tears. "But it said her face launched a thousand ships - " "That's what you call metaphor," said Rincewind. "Lying," the sergeant explained, kindly.

Terry Pratchett

#23. There live a great man named Joe / who was belittled by a loudmouth foe / While his rival would taunt and tease / Joe silently bore the stings / And then fought like gladiator in the ring

Muhammad Ali

#24. For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

Kurt Braunohler

#25. 173 despots would surely be as oppressive as one," wrote Jefferson in 1785 in his Notes on the State of Virginia. "An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."31

Gordon S. Wood

#26. Home was where the heart was, where we bled, where we laughed, met those we love, where we built, and what we fought for. Home was the dry soil we kept nurturing unconditionally, the place we took care of ...

Cameron Jace

#27. Simple game - he'd fill a wineglass with one of his expensive reds and set it on the edge of the table. Then he would fuck me. Hard." Nora grinned as Wesley flinched. "If I thrashed too much, or fought him and knocked the glass off ... then the wine wasn't the only red that we spilled that night.

Tiffany Reisz

#28. No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.

Bob Riley

#29. Most battles are won before they are ever fought.

George S. Patton

#30. What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#31. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil?

W.E.B. Du Bois

#32. I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

Jack Kirby

#33. Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

#34. Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.

Marshall McLuhan

#35. True love isn't easy but it must be fought for, because once you find it, it can never be replaced. - Unknown

Zane

#36. The best side drew
(after a hard fought 1-1 draw)

Bill Shankly

#37. You have fought a hard battle, in hard conditions, and held a position until help came. Think of it like that.

Elizabeth Moon

#38. The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

Leonard Cohen

#39. I'd jumped into raging rivers, ridden wild bulls, bucking horses and fought off deadly snakes. I'd done a thousand crazy things in my life that made Ma yell at me, but I'd never - never - been as scared as I was when I looked at him. *

N.R. Walker

#40. I think, though, that another shame of war is that when it's over, a soldier don't get to leave it behind where he fought it. He's gotta carry it right back home with him, in his head, and in his heart.

Sandra Kring

#41. Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars - for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family.

Stanley Weintraub

#42. It is the first time I haven't fought the feeling, haven't tried to control it with closed eyes or a redirection of my mind. Instead I embrace it, flexing my hands around the shaking steering wheel, celebrating the release of dark energy as it spreads through my body.

Alessandra Torre

#43. You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

George Armstrong Custer

#44. The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

Aldrich Ames

#45. I once again fought against the desire to bitch-slap a faerie

Maggie Stiefvater

#46. To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

Novalis

#47. We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#48. My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

Amy Tan

#49. There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war against women, a war that not only continues to this moment without the slightest abatement but intensifies hourly.

Sonia Johnson

#50. To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

Jeb Bush

#51. Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. Mr. McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years. Anyone would go nuts.

Vladimir Putin

#52. For 10 years, I have fought passionately for climate protection.

Angela Merkel

#53. The best things in this world are meant to be fought for." -Kearney

Brittany L. Engels

#54. We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative

Kameron Hurley

#55. But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Tom Hanks

#56. I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.

Michael Gambon

#57. We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

James Randi

#58. Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

Fred D'Aguiar

#59. We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Robert E.Lee

#60. There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear,
and there are desires to die, fought by two
opposing waters that have never isthmused.

Cesar Vallejo

#61. Battles for truth are fought all alone but in the end it's a victory for many.

Amit Abraham

#62. having someone I could belong to was a lure I'd always both fought against and gravitated to. I did not like the idea of being owned,

C.W. Gortner

#63. I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.

Margaret Caroline Anderson

#64. Praise to our Indian brothers, and the dark face have his due!
Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few,
Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them, and slew.
That ever upon the topment roof our banner in India blew.

Alfred Tennyson

#65. Few Indians or castes fought to forge a new nation called Mexico; such a scheme would have made little sense, and held little interest, for them. They fought in the hope that their lot in life might in some way improve. The

Timothy J. Henderson

#66. When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

Howard Zinn

#67. We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.

Margaret Atwood

#68. Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

Kurt Vonnegut

#69. I would have kissed you harder. I would have fought for you more. I don't know. I would have stolen you away, taken your virtue, made myself so permanently etched on your person that every time you took a breath it was my scent that was permeating the air.

Rachel Van Dyken

#70. With so many trapped in the upper floors, it hardly surprised Jo how often they fought, or how fiercely. When you didn't have one room to yourself in the whole world, you laid claim to every inch of whatever you could.

Genevieve Valentine

#71. When I first met you, I thought we were made for each other even though we seemed like opposites in some ways and we fought. But now ... "
"What?"
"Now I feel like we weren't made for each other. We're making each other - into the people we should become. Do you know what I mean?

Julianna Baggott

#72. My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

Chuck Palahniuk

#73. When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

Florence Welch

#74. Freedom would not be handed to us like a gift. Freedom had to be fought for and taken.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#75. You did not walk away from those you loved. You fought for them, always, with everything you had, even if it meant fighting the long fight, and staying on the hardest, quietest, most difficult course.

Thea Harrison

#76. This is a war," Lemas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with a wastage of innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it's nothing, nothing at all besides other wars - the last or the next.

John Le Carre

#77. All significant battles are fought within self.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#78. The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

Guy Burgess

#79. Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms of the flesh. Because the conflict is spiritual so must the weapons.

Watchman Nee

#80. The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

Tim Cook

#81. Understand that fire fought with fire does only increase the heat.

Raphael Zernoff

#82. Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.

Karin Slaughter

#83. I wear my lines like a soldier wears his medals. They've been earned. They've been fought for - so there's no reason to be ashamed of them. In your 50s, you just care less about that sort of thing. I think it's to do with what's inside you. You can't obsess about the outside.

Cherie Lunghi

#84. Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

Louise Slaughter

#85. Jimmy Stewart lived for movies, fought for his country, and died for love. Now isn't that a wonderful life?

Richard Corliss

#86. On Memorial Day we come together as Americans to let these families and veterans know that they are not alone. We give thanks for those who sacrificed everything so that we could be free. And we commit ourselves to upholding the ideals for which so many patriots have fought and died.

Barack Obama

#87. The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of
souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and
solitude.

Ole Hallesby

#88. Our break-up had been a resounding anti-climax. I wanted to be wept over, bitterly. I wanted to be fought for. Mourned, or regretted just a little.
I wanted to feel like I was someone who'd been worth having in the first place.

Catherine Sanderson

#89. That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck it was they fought over in those days.'
Same things we fight over these days,' Terri said.
Laura said, 'Nothing's changed.

Raymond Carver

#90. They fought for glory, but not for blood.

Cinda Williams Chima

#91. Sofia fought with me throughout the book and I had to rewriter her three times to get it right.

Holly S. Roberts

#92. I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack.

Richelle Mead

#93. To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.

Mary Ann Glendon

#94. I Have Fought the Good Fight and Won

Carmen J. Viglucci

#95. Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.

Paul Goodman

#96. The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.

Charles R. Morris

#97. According to Robert, his friend Moses was a soldier in the first war, as he described it. He fought Indians and soldiers in red coats.

Nancy B. Brewer

#98. War made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.

Evadne Price

#99. If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog."
(Anne Bonny to John "Calico Jack" Rackham)

Anne Bonny

#100. Just as a war fought in winter demands different behavior and equipment from a war in the summer, human beings must learn to respect their own seasons, and not try to act when it is time to wait, not try to wait at a time of action.

Paulo Coelho