Quotes About Picking Your Fights

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

Gunnar Nelson

#2. For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, 'Oh, it's OK.' But when you're black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder.

Ken Page

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

Michael Gove

#4. 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

#5. I never had a sister growing up. Donny was the closest thing.

Marie Osmond

#6. I'll never get enough of this woman - my wife. I want to please her. I want to own her completely: Mind, body and soul. I want her to be my physical property. She is my physical property. When her eyes meet mine, I know without a doubt that I would do anything for her - anything.

Ella Dominguez

#7. 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

#8. As I looked around the room at all these people-my family-excitement thrummed through me. Yes, this might go down in history as the stupidest thing I'd ever done, but it felt so good to have a plan that I didn't care if it was a bad one.

Rachel Hawkins

#9. Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Delphine De Girardin

#10. Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters.

Desiderius Erasmus

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

Gayle Forman

#12. You have to be different, great or first.

Loretta Lynn