Quotes with fights

  • Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
  • The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
  • Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in b

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Hortense Calisher An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Barbara Mandrell By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Euripides Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • A. E. Housman Could man be drunk for ever
    With liquor, love, or fights,
    Lief should I rouse at mornings
    And lief lie down of nights.
    But men at whiles are sober
    And think by fits and starts,
    And if they think, they fasten
    Their hands upon their hearts.
    Last Poems (1922) No. 10, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Budd Schulberg Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
    The Universal Soldier (1963)
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Oliver Cromwell I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Winston Churchill I like a man who grins when he fights.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Andy Rooney I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • E. B. White It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • John Betjeman Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites.
    John Betjeman
    English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
    Van Paassen interview (1936)
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Agnes Smedley Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Thomas Moore Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side in the course of mankind if our creeds agree?
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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