Quotes with fighting

  • Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.
  • One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
  • The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
  • Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
  • And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
  • War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
  • I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
  • We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.
  • A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
  • Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
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  • Josh Billings Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Cate Campbell All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Sun Tzu Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Anne Perry The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Sun Tzu The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Sun Tzu Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Cockburn A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bill Dedman About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • George Orwell All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bob Dylan And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers...
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Geldof And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Philo of Alexandria Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Bull fighting is not a sport. It was never supposed to be. It is a tragedy.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Henry George Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Gertrude Stein Disillusionment in living is the finding out nobody agrees with you not only those that are and were fighting with you.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Erica Jong Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Bob Riley Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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