Quotes About Putting Up A Fight

#1. There is a point in fighting. There is a point in struggle. Not wholesale revolution, maybe, that might not be possible, an absolutely just society, but there are plenty of spaces and places where it's worth putting up a fight.

Aleksandar Hemon

#2. I wait until her breathing is soft and even against me before I let myself drift off to sleep, like I've been doing every night for the past few weeks. Slowly, everything in my life is turning into putting her first, and I'm not going to fight it.

Carian Cole

#3. If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

Gertrude Stein

#4. I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

Douglas Hurd

#5. I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up. I couldn't find tractors small enough to fit it.

Steven Wright

#6. Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

Quentin Crisp

#7. An ideal day starts with putting on a good, smart, fun show where I learn something and ends with me fending off atomic knee drops from my two kids in our no-holds-barred pillow fight/steel cage matches. They are a ruthless tag team.

Willie Geist

#8. It is like putting a dehumidifier and a humidifier in the same room and letting them fight it out.

Steven Wright

#9. In the world today , it's easy to quit. I believe in putting up the fight.

Mark Harmon

#10. Snape might refer to their work as "cleaning," but in Harry's opinion they were really waging was on the house, which was putting up a very good fight, aided and abetted by Kreacher.

J.K. Rowling

#11. A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#12. Hussein praised his sons for putting up a brave fight, noting that U.S. forces had surrounded their compound with advanced weaponry, ground troops and warplanes. In case that didn't work, U.S. forces were prepared to tell Janet Reno that a small Cuban boy was inside the house.

Ann Coulter

#13. At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

Robert Cailliau

#14. The trouble with Lucious," he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone," is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

Robert Harris

#15. The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day.

Richard S. Fuld Jr.

#16. Everybody loves comfort, but that is an illusion my friends.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.

Vladimir Kramnik

#18. I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven't been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife I didn't put up for that stuff just to come in second.

Barack Obama

#19. I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.'

Adam Rapp

#20. I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.

Sharon Van Etten

#21. Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. If a petite, abused slave can rise up, fight for freedom, secure the freedom of others, and change her world, so can I. And so can you.

Susie Larson