Quotes About Picking Fights

#1. My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.

Barbara Pym

#2. I absolutely haven't set out to burnish a reputation as a macho figure by picking fights.

Michael Gove

#3. Guilt is a hunter. My conscience mocked me, picking fights like a petulant child. It's all your fault, the voice whispered. I

Ruta Sepetys

#4. Rather than campaigning to help women, feminists today are more likely to be picking fights on Twitter, or dressing up petty grievances as proof of rampant 'sexism'.

Angela Epstein

#5. Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Carla Bruni

#6. As much as I love acoustic Neil Young - and I do deeply - I may be more passionate about the electric. Luckily it's not a contest, and we never have to make that choice. But Neil Young on an electric guitar - I feel like I've never seen or heard anything like it.

Jonathan Demme

#7. I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one.Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying

Gayle Forman

#8. Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

Gunnar Nelson

#9. I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.

Stephen Karam

#10. The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results, and one's role in them.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

Howard Zinn