Quotes with fight-or-flight

Quotes 201 till 220 of 301.

  • Anna Lindh Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • George Bernard Shaw That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Watson The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Abigail Van Buren The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Carole Berman The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.
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  • Bill Alexander The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
    Memorials of the Spanish Civil War: the official publication of the International Brigade Association
    Bill Alexander
    German painter, art instructor, and television host (1915 - 1997)
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  • Black Kettle The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas, but north some young warriors were fired upon and then the fight began.
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Arundhati Roy The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • George Orwell The fight against bad English is not frivolous.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anna Wickham The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat.
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  • Bob Riley The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Margaret Mead The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • David O. Mckay The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
    David O. Mckay
    American religious leader and educator (1951 - 1970)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing - and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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