Fighting Quotes

• I used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and go through all of that and come right out to be drowned in a river in Mississippi. I found this hypocrisy is all over America.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Kids
  • America
  • Question

• People like to call themselves fans of fighting and fans of the sport, but if you're a fan of fighting, how can you not like watching Demetrious Johnson? He's the best at it. He's the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Why wouldn't you enjoy watching that guy perform? He does a phenomenal job every time he's in there.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Want
  • Determination
  • Thrill

• I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Time
  • Long
  • Enjoy

• If I read something great and I want to go after it, I go after it. You don't wait to see what Hollywood wants to do with you. You decide what you want to do. I don't mind fighting when I really want something.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Fighting

• We make war and revolution at the same time. Militiamen are fighting for the conquest of the land, the factories, bread, and culture … the pickaxe and the shovel are as important as the rifle. Comrades, we will win the war!

  

  Buenaventura Durruti
  • Time
  • Important
  • War

• I don't care where I fight on the card, but to get people motivated or excited, like, 'Cowboy's fighting!' that's my overall goal.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • People
  • Motivated
  • Cowboy

• Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Fun

• 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
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Art

• And at thirty-eight a brilliant exponent of arms and a knight of the great fighting and religious Order of St John, the Chevalier de Villegagnon had absolutely no use for common sense himself, but respected it in the laity.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Great
  • Religious
  • Knight

• We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • World
  • Money
  • Rest

• If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Man

• The Iraqi people are capable of fighting to the victorious end which God wants... the blood of our martyrs will burn you!

  

  Saddam Hussein
  • People
  • God
  • Fighting

• Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Women
  • Fighting
  • More

• In one war, there are a thousand wars within that war--each one private, singular, inaccessible, a fragment, a piece of a larger whole, parallel yet forever separate. And all we do in life is struggle with our impoverished efforts to put our war into words. I don't believe most of us ever succeed in our translations. It's an art most of us never conquer. That's why we argue with one another. We're like countries--each of us clinging to our separate histories. We're fighting one another about our translations, about what really happened. Which is another kind of war.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • War
  • Words
  • Life is

• There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Years

• Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

  

  Jim Valvano
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• As a mom, I'm going to be out there still fighting to make sure that every beautiful child has good schools, same communities, and a chance to succeed because God has given everybody unique gifts.

  

  Katie McGinty
  • Good
  • God
  • Beautiful

• Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Together
  • Small
  • Poverty

• I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • Trying
  • Fighting
  • Gym

• When people hear me sing, I want them to be happy, happy, happy. I don't want them thinking about when there's not any money, or when there's fighting at home. My message is always felicidad - happiness.

  

  Celia Cruz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Home

• My wife Amber and I, along with our two children, did not move to Liberia for the specific purpose of fighting Ebola.

  

  Kent Brantly
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Purpose

• When the head of the Hyundai Motor Company, Chung Mong-koo, was fighting with his younger brother Chung Mong-hun over the company's management, he is said to have consulted a fortune-teller.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • Fighting
  • Brother
  • Management

• I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Career
  • Fighting
  • September

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