Fighting Quotes

• But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Done
  • Fighting

• The military is not a social services operation or a testing ground for gender wars. It is a fighting machine. Women are not as strong as men. Their instincts and reactions in crises are markedly different.

  

  Liz Trotta
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I'm fighting not only for myself and for my family, but I feel I am fighting for everybody who has cancer.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Family
  • Fighting
  • Cancer

• Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Strong
  • Mean
  • Evil

• I would never come out and say I was gay, because I'm not gay. And there's part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that that comes from anybody who is constantly wishing they were in the minority, you know, and constantly wants to be kind of fighting everybody off, you know?

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Fighting
  • Gay
  • Wishes

• I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Cousin

• I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.

  

  George Papandreou
  • Life
  • Country
  • Father

• I think sports are very beneficial in the fight against obesity. I remember playing little league - I was the best person on the pitch by a long shot. It was only last weekend actually, I think I have some photos of it if you're interested.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Remember

• That's my style of fighting. I am throwing down, you know? Having fun. And that's my approach to life.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Style

• The Rockies and Diamondbacks are both very exciting teams who are fighting for recognition.

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • Fighting

• The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • Respect
  • Fighting

• I liked the clear morality of 1941, when you had no doubt about good and evil. There was a lot of idealism, people fighting for a cause. People are searching for morality today.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • People
  • Good
  • Today

• Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Money
  • America

• If a segment of one's force is located where it is not sufficiently busy with the enemy, or if the troops are on the march - that is, idle - while the enemy is fighting, then these forces are being managed uneconomically. In this sense they are being wasted, which is even worse than using them inappropriately.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • March

• Jonas Salk showed that a killed virus vaccine would work and would be damned effective in fighting disease. This was something that virologists of the day pooh-poohed. And Salk proved them wrong.

  

  David Oshinsky
  • Work
  • Fighting

• And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Power
  • Together

• Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Important
  • Pleasure

• In my experience, young people fighting for the passage of the DREAM Act and to prevent the deportation of those who are eligible are among the most committed and fearless advocates for change in this country.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • People
  • Country
  • Experience

• If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage of you in a heartbeat. It takes a long time to get back in fighting form.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fighting

• I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Courage

• The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • Business
  • Food
  • Die

• I think 'Magneto' is definitely an anti-hero. He's fighting for the right thing, but his methods are far too extreme. He's not above breaking the law, stretching the limits of what is moral and putting evil to work for good.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Good
  • Work
  • Law

• Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Fighting
  • Battle
  • Traitors

• Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.

  

  Walter Reuther
  • Fighting

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