Quotes with fight-or-flight

Quotes 81 till 100 of 301.

  • Malcolm X I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Barack Obama I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
    Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Barack Obama, 2009, Book 1, Government Printing Office, 2011 p. 761
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Germaine Greer I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Robert Browning I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Tim Robbins I grew up in New York, and I have that in me, that be-honest-at-all-costs, don't b.s. me attitude. I say, ''If you've got something to say about me, say it to my face. And then we'll either talk about it or fight about it.''
    Tim Robbins
    American actor (1958 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I just take it one fight at a time. If I'm able to fight, and I'm still healthy enough, I'd like to fight. But I'll know when it's time to stop.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Seneca I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • William Morris I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Anthony Weiner I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Burt Rutan I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • George Foreman I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Willis I wanted to sign up and fight with you guys, but they told me I was too old.
    Bruce Willis during a visit to the 101st Airborne Division in northern Iraq, September 25, 2003. [2]
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
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  • Abigail Adams I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
    Letter to John Adams (24 September 1774)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Arne Duncan I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I'm a prize fighter. Titles don't pay bills. I fight for money. I'm making money. They're making money. Everybody's making money. That's what this is all about.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg I'm a professional athlete. I've been paid since I was in my early 20s to go out there and fight with guys who were 40 or 50 pounds heavier than I am and fight for my life. I got into a business where people make decisions based on some of the most stupid things.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Ashleigh Banfield I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.
    Ashleigh Banfield
    Canadian-American journalist (1967 - )
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  • Ace Frehley I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Ben Carson I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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