Fighting Quotes - page 23

Now he conducted her through his armouries where he kept his weapons and weapons for his fighting men and all panoply of war. There he showed her swords and spears, maces and axes and daggers, orfreyed and damascened and inlaid with jewels; byrnies and baldricks and shields; blades so keen, a hair blown against them in a wind should be parted in twain; charmed helms on which no ordinary sword would bite. And Juss said unto the Queen, "Madam, what thinkest thou of these swords and spears? For know well that these be the ladder's rungs that we of Demonland climbed up by to that signiory and principality which now we hold over the four corners of the world." She answered, "O my lord, I think nobly of them. For an ill part it were while we joy in the harvest, to contemn the tools that prepared the land for it and reaped it." (Eric Rücker Eddison)
Even now I still meet waiters in Bengali restaurants who say, "When we were in the jungle fighting, it was great to know somebody out there was thinking of us." View quote
George Harrison
The unity of instinct and the universal belief in freedom for the individual which id the backbone of democracy is a very real thing in Britain today. We are not only fighting for it, it is our greatest weapon. View quote
Margery Allingham
On the bright side, maybe sending men in dresses into women's bathrooms will reduce number of women in our fighting forces. View quote
Ann Coulter
When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we're up against absolutely insane savages. View quote
Ann Coulter
Combining al Qaeda's significant fighting capabilities with a stronger focus on the administrative capabilities that might permit it to hold ground, the Islamic State copied the latter from Hezbollah's model. Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the mid-east, and hardening political positions that make mid-east peace-building more remote by the day. View quote
James Mattis
For all the ‘4th Generation of War' intellectuals running around today saying that the nature of war has fundamentally changed, the tactics are wholly new, etc., I must respectfully say, ‘Not really': Alexander the Great would not be in the least bit perplexed by the enemy that we face right now in Iraq, and our leaders going into this fight do their troops a disservice by not studying - studying, vice just reading - the men who have gone before us. We have been fighting on this planet for 5,000 years and we should take advantage of their experience. ‘Winging it' and filling body bags as we sort out what works reminds us of the moral dictates and the cost of incompetence in our profession. View quote
James Mattis
This is the war on terrorism; it's worth fighting for. View quote
Bruce Willis
Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The British people realise that they are fighting for the hegemony of the Empire. If necessary we shall continue the war single-handed. View quote
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for. (Ethel Lina White)
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. View quote
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America. View quote
Paul Robeson
But there are two things that different kinds of people believe that are the worst, most dangerous, wrongest of all. Some people believe that the best way to solve a problem is with violence; they beat up or kill anyone who disagrees with them." ... "But what's the other worst kind of bad thinking?" "Pacifism," she said. "That's just the opposite of the first kind of bad thinking. Pacificists believe that you should never lift a hand against another human being, no matter what he has done or what you know he's going to do." ... "Some pacificists are cowards in disguise, but some really believe it's right to permit the murder of an innocent person rather than kill to stop it. They're wrong because by not fighting evil, they've become part of it. View quote
Dean Koontz
Don't give us none of your aggravation, We had it with your discipline. Saturday night's alright for fighting, Get a little action in. View quote
Elton John
[...]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day. View quote
Max Brooks
Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. View quote
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country. View quote
Garry Kasparov
We must decide what we value and decide what is worth fighting for and then–the most important part–we must fight for it. View quote
Garry Kasparov
I have found yet another friend here. And with such a friend we will together form a team, like a soccer team. This will be a fighting team. View quote
Alexander Lukashenko
No, thank you," said Adrian. "These hands don't sully themselves with fighting. (Richelle Mead)
I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack. View quote
Richelle Mead
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. View quote
Hermione Gingold
In a frenzy, kicking his legs and moving his arms in a swimmer's breaststroke, he managed to fight toward the rod. The closer he got to it, the stronger the web of force became. He did not give up. If he did, he would be back where he had been and without enough strength to begin fighting again. It was not his nature to give up until all his strength had been expended. View quote
Philip José Farmer
The enemy may land on this island soon. Once they do, we must follow the fate of those on Attu and Saipan. Our officers and men know about "Death” very well. I am sorry to end my life here, fighting the United States of America, but I want to defend this island as long as possible and to delay the enemy air raids on Tokyo. Ah! You have worked well for a long time as my wife and the mother of my three children. Your life will become harder and more precarious. Watch out for your health and live long. The future of our children will not be easy either. Please take care of them after my death. View quote
Tadamichi Kuribayashi