Fighting Quotes - Page 12

• Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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  I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

  Ty Cobb

  Beats, Bases, Left

  "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

  Marlo Thomas

  Equality, Guitar, Fields

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• A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

  Dorothy Parker

  Men, Politics, Rooms

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• But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.

  Dee Snider

  Song, Believe, Stand Up For Yourself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.

  Art Buchwald

  Country, War, Men

  Art Buchwald (1994). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Thorndike Pr

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• War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

  Art Buchwald

  War, Men, Sitting

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage.

  Art Buchwald

  Writing, Wife, Use

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• If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

  Simon Bolivar

  Nature, Ifs

  "Birth of a World: Bolivar in Terms of His Peoples". Book by Waldo David Frank, p. 55, 1951.

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• No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.

  Margaret Mitchell

  War, Reality, Rallying Cry

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

  Jacques Barzun

  Sleep, Naps, Giving

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• I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Winning, People, Effort

  Letter to Andrew Carnegie, January 13, 1899.

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• To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Reality, Overcoming, World

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• I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

  John Steinbeck

  Wall, Hate, Men

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• I was very much a tough New York street kid. I went to a school where you had to learn how to get along with everybody or fight with everybody, and I did my fair share of both.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  New York, School, Kids

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• We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Hate, Real, War

  STEPHEN VINCENT BENET (1928). “JOHN BROWN'S BODY”

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• Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Knives, Punishment

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.5, Vintage

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• Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

  John Cage

  Music, Hands, Iron

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• Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

  William Safire

  Light, Years, Political

  "Newswords" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009.

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• I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

  Charles Kennedy

  Thinking, Views, People

  "Gently does it?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.

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• If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

  Karel Capek

  Ifs

  "On Relativism". Book by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

  Jane Haddam

  Writing, Advice, Half

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• The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Self, Disease, Life Is

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: "Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is this true of men! If they know there is no alternative, they will fight to the death.

  Sun Tzu

  Men, Enemy, Alternatives

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• In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

  Nikita Khrushchev

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