Fighting Quotes - page 9

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting. (Jack Kornfield)
I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year. View quote
Jon Lord
You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke. View quote
Ed Harris
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting. View quote
Emily Oster
When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves. View quote
Ally Condie
It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging. View quote
Zoltan Istvan
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall. View quote
Elihu Root
Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr. Eberhardt had said, 'but sometimes there's a fine line between courage and stupidity. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. View quote
Clara Zetkin
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse. View quote
Lev Grossman
Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home. (Linda Howard)
Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. View quote
Lawrence Anthony
If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people. View quote
Joyce Meyer
Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. View quote
Alan King
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great. View quote
George Weinberg
The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to "loving and faithfully serving his country," at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms, and a far better one than those who, with an ostentatious pretense of superior patriotism, cry for war before it is needed, especially if then they let others do the fighting. View quote
Carl Schurz
Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character. View quote
Bo Bennett
49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way. View quote
Burt Ward
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. View quote
Bob Geldof
In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It's about being a man. And it's about love as well as hate. (Chris Kyle)
The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.' View quote
Conan O'Brien
I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another. View quote
Margaret Mahy
I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners. View quote
Marlen Esparza
Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon! View quote
Naoko Takeuchi