In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
- Heinrich Heine
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler
Some people really need to be taught some manners," he said disdainfully. I stared up at him.
"Would you really have gotten in a fight for me?"
"Of course." He didn't hesitate.
"But there were four of them."
"Beth, I'd take on Megatron's army to protect you."
"Who?
- Alexandra Adornetto
We believe that peace is hard-won,
That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace.
But more than that, we believe that
Justice is more important than peace.
- Veronica Roth
Before I die, I want to fight for life.
- Paulo Coelho
I would rather throw myself out of the plane as it crosses the ocean. Since I cannot open the windows, I would die here. But before I die, I want to fight for life. If I can walk on my own, I can go wherever I like.
- Paulo Coelho
If everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because He had suffered for all those who'd had the courage to fight for their dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.
- Paulo Coelho
It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights..
- Paulo Coelho
The universe always
helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.
- Paulo Coelho
It's funny how when you are dying, you still fight for the upper hand. You want to pick the terms; you want to choose the date. You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.
- Jodi Picoult
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
- Jesse Jackson
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
He wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in a painting. You have to do it from inside yourself... You could do it if you wanted to fight for it. If you'd lived right with your eyes.
- Ernest Hemingway
you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
- Ilona Andrews
Fuck easy, Ceri. If you love him, fight for him. Nothing worth keeping is free in this world.
- Ilona Andrews
If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.
- Alexis Arguello
You just need to know, I gotta fight to keep what we got so we can build on it, I will. Him, your Dad, you, I don't give a fuck. In my life, I've learned when to let shit go and when to fight. This, babe, what we got, I'll fight for.
- Kristen Ashley
In my life, I've learned when to let shit go and when to fight. This, babe, what we got, I'll fight for.
- Kristen Ashley
You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living!
- Amelia Atwater Rhodes
It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.
- Emilie Autumn
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
- Joe Baca
We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else.
- Michele Bachmann
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
- Roger Nash Baldwin
The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.
- Pat Barker
The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.
- Michael D Barnes
And you chose to fight for Artemis instead, what kind of stupid are you? (Jeff)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I want you to show him to Zeth and the rest of the Olympian dogs who fight for us. (Noir)
Anything else, Master? Lick your boots? Wipe your ass? (Asmodeus)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So what do wolves do to date?" Nick asked.
"We don't date," Vane said. "When a woman is in season, we fight for her and then she picks who mounts her."
Nick gaped. "Are you kidding? You don't have to buy her dinner? You mean you don't even have to talk to her?" He turned to Acheron. "Dayam, Ash, make me a wolf.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I thought it would be a good thing to follow John Redmond's words. I thought for my mother's sake, her gentle soul, for the sake of my own children, I might go out and fight for to save Europe so that we might have the Home Rule in Ireland in the upshot. I came out to fight for a country that doesn't exist, and now, Willie, mark my words, it never will.
- Sebastian Barry
If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your wife, your husband, or even (god forbid) your job. It doesn't matter if it's wild to anyone else: if it's what makes your heart sing, if it's what makes your days soar like a hawk in the summertime, then focus on it. Because for sure, it's wild, and if it's wild, it'll mean you're still free. No matter where you are.
- Rick Bass
When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.
- Joan Bauer
I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
- Ahmed Ben Bella
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.
- Saul Bellow
In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused. At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?
- John Steinbeck
This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
- John Steinbeck
Regarding "thou mayest":
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
- John Steinbeck
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
- John Steinbeck
Fight for change? Thirst for difference?
Start talking what men avoid talking about.
- Toba Beta
I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.
- Rob Bishop
The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.
- Richard Parks Bland
She was no longer a slow dreamer watching the flowers grow. She was a warrior now. Warriors need something to fight for though, beside their lives, because otherwise their lives will not be worth it.
- Francesca Lia Block
We cannot fight for love as men may do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo.
- William Shakespeare
Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field, You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius! Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex: We cannot fight for love, as men ay do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.
- William Shakespeare
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
- Ray Bradbury
We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
- Barbara Boxer
Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
- Barbara Boxer
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
- Barbara Boxer
It appears to me that man must always have war. When one great rebellion ends, another will begin. Do they fight for a great cause or is it egos that must be conquered?
- Nancy B Brewer
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
- Harry Bridges
I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
- Adam Brody
Marty chose, instead, to show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay. There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.
- Max Brooks
... show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.
- Max Brooks
In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
- Arthur C Brooks
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
- Rita Mae Brown
You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.
- Eric Brown
to fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs.
- Charles Bukowski
Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
- Chuck Palahniuk
But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.
- Bernhard Von Bulow
I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
- Smedley Butler
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
- Karel Capek
... a country where we seldom understand that we must be prepared to fight for issues bigger than an umpire's decision at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- Peter Carey
DEATH
...
And now you are here to fight for this woman.
You know her promise is given.
She has to die or her husband won't go free.
APOLLO
Relax, I'm not breaking any laws.
DEATH
Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws?
APOLLO
I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
- Anne Carson
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
- C J Cherryh
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
- Marian Wright Edelman
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It's all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
- Emil Cioran
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
- Tom Clancy
I do not know her as you do, but I have shared each step of this journey with her, watched her fight for her life, and held her each night while she slept. I cannot help but care for her.
And suddenly Connor was glad Joseph had chosen to sleep in the loft.
- Pamela Clare
Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very difficult journey of repairing, rescuing, restoring our British economy, and they want us, and they want particularly Liberal Democrats in government, to fight for the fairest possible way of doing that.
- Nick Clegg
In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.
- David Clement Davies
You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
- Hillary Clinton
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
- Arthur Hugh Clough
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
- Hunter S Thompson
I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.
- Terry Pratchett
I will be strong enough to go without the tablet. But there are other things I'm not strong enough to go without, and I intend to fight for them. (Cassia Reyes)
- Ally Condie
I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.
- Jim Courier
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
- Norman Cousins
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
- William Cowper
I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.
- Charlie Crist
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.
- Herbert Croly
You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.
- Christopher Cross
How about it, Skywalker? Will you still fight for me after we've been married for twenty-odd years?"
"What do you mean by 'still'? You do your own fighting. If I forget that, I'm not likely to survive until our twentieth anniversary."
Mara & Luke
- Elaine Cunningham
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
- James Darcy
Love is the battlefield, those who want true love has to fight for it. Beyond differences created by humans such as caste, creed, country, religion, race and culture.
- Santosh Kalwar
I go out of my way to make sure you don't have any reason to feel jealous, but when you do get possessive, I like it. I want you to fight for me. I want you to care that much. I want you crazy about me. But possessiveness without trust is hell. If you don't trust me, we've got nothing.
- Sylvia Day
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
- Eugene V Debs
The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
- Gilles Deleuze
After Spain, World War II was simple. I wasn't even tempted to pick up a gun to fight for General Motors, U.S. Steel, or the Chase Manhattan Bank, even if Hitler was running the other side.
- David T Dellinger
Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.
- Sarah Dessen
It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
- Sarah Dessen
It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
- Sarah Dessen
It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--or impossible-- to lose.
- Sarah Dessen
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
- Princess Diana
When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
- Byron Dorgan
I knew one "fighter for and idea" who told me himself that when he was deprived of tobacco in prison, he was so tormented by this deprivation that he almost went and betrayed his "idea," just so that they would give him some tobacco. And such a man says: "I am going to fight for mankind." Well, how far will such a man get, and what is he good for? Perhaps some quick action, but he will not endure for long.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.
- Simone Elkeles
Intent and dreaming is nice but its not, will never be enough. If you want something bad enough in life then you must fight for it or go after it. Life doesn't just come to you.
- R M Engelhardt
I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.
- Kevin Eubanks
We must fight for our country and forget our differences. There can be but two parties: the party of patriots and the party of traitors..
- Seth Grahame Smith
But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.
- Louis Farrakhan
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
- Luis Figo
They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled...mother's big enough, wide enough for us to hide in...mother's who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us.
- Janet Fitch
Most of us are content to exist and breed and fight for the right to do both, and the dominant idea, the foredoomed attest to control one's destiny, is reserved for the fortunate or unfortunate few.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
- Ian Fleming
I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
- Vicente Fox
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
- Virginia Foxx
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity even under the most difficult circumstances to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal
- Viktor E Frankl
I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
- Ace Frehley
Life is hard, Kid, you gotta be harder. You gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man about how you live it.
- James Frey
Don't fight forces, use them.
- R Buckminster Fuller
So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
- Barack Obama
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
- Neil Gaiman
I told them to place a cyvasse table in your chambers.
Who was I supposed to play with?
Yourself. Sometimes it is best to study a game before you attempt to play it. How well do you know the game, Arianne?
Well enough to play.
But not to win. My brother loved the fight for its own sake, but I only played such games as I can win.
- George R R Martin
Some would fight for any cause, some for none at all.
- George R R Martin
We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.
- David Gemmell
I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.
- Gina Gershon
If only non-hypocrites are going to fight for the environment then it will be an army of none. (60)
- David Gessner
It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50)
- David Gessner
If ever there was something she needed to stick around and fight for, Luc was that something.
- Rachel Gibson
...what good would it
do to
shutter your windows, never
dream of rainbows or find hope
in promises? Why choose to
walk away
rather than hold your ground
and fight for love?
- Ellen Hopkins
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.
- Witold Gombrowicz
It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
- John Goodman
I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.
- Abraham Lincoln
I need you to protect me from being lonely. Don't fight for me. Be with me.That's what I need.-Bianca to Lucas
- Claudia Gray
All of you cowboys, fight for your land.
- Woody Guthrie
Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.
- H Rider Haggard
It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.
- Laurell K Hamilton
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.
- Fred Hampton
Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.
- Kristin Hannah
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
No matter what the results, it is my choices that define me. And I will fight for them, even when it seems that failure is inevitable. Perhaps most especially then.
- Cat Hellisen
The catholics fight for the dogma of their God. The Nazis fight for victory on the battlefield. And then there's Alucard...
If you really think about it, they all fight for the same thing. The revitalization of a dream. How very unfortunate..
- Kohta Hirano
You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
- Alice Hoffman
We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.
- Larry Holmes
..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.
- Bell Hooks
...take it from someone who's had it before...you don't want to let it slip away. Fight for her.
- Colleen Hoover
I'm not the kind of man to bottle up my feelings, Kells. I don't sit up in my room pining away, writing love poems. I'm not a dreamer. I'm a fighter. I'm a man of action, and it will take all of my self-control not to fight for this. When something needs to be done, I do it. When I feel something, I act on it. I don't see any reason why Ren deserves to get the girl of his dreams and I don't. It doesn't seem fair that this happens to me twice.
- Colleen Houck
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
- Zora Neale Hurston
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
- Hypatia
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen
Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I'm not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it's about the work, not about how big my trailer is.
- Amy Irving
We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.
- Alija Izetbegovic
To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?
- Criss Jami
She will fight for light, and he for dark,
Battling through the ages for loves sweet spark.
Wherever two souls adore truly, you will find them, lo,
The brave Juliet and the wicked Romeo.
- Stacey Jay
It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it... It's okay to find what makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are.
- Derrick Jensen
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
- Joan Jett
I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.
- Joan Jett
We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in
- Jewel
If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
- Garry Kasparov
Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.
- Lauren Kate
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
- Jon Katz
fight for what you believe in,
for if you don't you will be forever fighting against yourself.
- Keisha Keenleyside
I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.
- Anna Kendrick
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
- Vanessa Kerry
WHETHER IT'S A CHILD'S TOY OR A NATION'S OIL, IT'S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT. AGGRESSION. IT'S THE SPICE OF LIFE. War was right: people had to fight for what they wanted. Or maybe balance, as Famine has said -- strength matched with temperance.
No, she thought. Not balance, Control. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT CONTROL, War agreed merrily. [as in the meaning of why wars happen]
- Jackie Kessler
I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever.
- Klaus Kinski
If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.
- Masashi Kishimoto
The fight for you was all I've ever known.
- Tj Klune
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
- Olga Korbut
Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
- Vladimir Kramnik
If you give me wings
I will soar for you
Even if this whole land
Sinks down to the water
If you give me a sword
I will fight for you
Even if this whole sky
Shoots through with your light
- Tite Kubo
There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. Serpine will have won only when there is no one left to stand against him. Until then, there is only the struggle, because tides do what tides dothey turn.
- Derek Landy
We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
- James Larkin
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
- James Larkin
Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.
- James Larkin
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
- D H Lawrence
What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.
- John Linder
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
- Laura Linney
I wanna get back
To the old days
When the phone would ring
And I knew it was you
I wanna talk back
And get yelled at
Fight for nothing
Like we used to
Oh kiss me
Like you mean it
Like you miss me
Cuz I know you do
I wanna get back, get back
I wanna get back, get back
I wanna get back, get back
Get Back
- Demi Lovato
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.
- Sergei Lukyanenko
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.
- Wangari Maathai
Because there is a time for all things. My people, like you, believe in peace. But sometimes, the only way to have peace is to fight for it. (Zenobia)
- Kinley Macgregor
And yet you're a knight. (Rowena)
Because I have seen the great evil that is done on this earth to those who can't fight for themselves. The meek only inherit the grave while the strong go on until someone stronger stops them. (Stryder)
- Kinley Macgregor
I really fight for my privacy.
- Kyle Maclachlan
I still have more to fight for in the coming years.
- Hermann Maier
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
- Malcolm X
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
- William Manchester
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
- Thomas Mann
You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.
- Charles Manson
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
- Mickey Mantle
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
- Imelda Marcos
I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.
- Susana Martinez
Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.
- John Mccain
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.
- John Mccain
...most people who've been around awhile know [love's] just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lost it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.
- Colum Mccann
Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.
- Colum Mccann
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.
- David Mccullough
I said I wasn't going to fight with you about Jared anymore, I never said I wasn't going to fight for you.
- Jamie Mcguire
When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.
- Stephenie Meyer
I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.
- Stephenie Meyer
I didn't come here to fight with you. I'm here to fight for you.
-Evan
- Mayandree Michel
I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
- Barbara Mikulski
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
- John Stuart Mill
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
- Zell Miller
- Heinrich Heine
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler
Some people really need to be taught some manners," he said disdainfully. I stared up at him.
"Would you really have gotten in a fight for me?"
"Of course." He didn't hesitate.
"But there were four of them."
"Beth, I'd take on Megatron's army to protect you."
"Who?
- Alexandra Adornetto
We believe that peace is hard-won,
That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace.
But more than that, we believe that
Justice is more important than peace.
- Veronica Roth
Before I die, I want to fight for life.
- Paulo Coelho
I would rather throw myself out of the plane as it crosses the ocean. Since I cannot open the windows, I would die here. But before I die, I want to fight for life. If I can walk on my own, I can go wherever I like.
- Paulo Coelho
If everyone played their part, no one else would have to suffer, because He had suffered for all those who'd had the courage to fight for their dreams.
- Paulo Coelho
No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.
- Paulo Coelho
It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights..
- Paulo Coelho
The universe always
helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.
- Paulo Coelho
It's funny how when you are dying, you still fight for the upper hand. You want to pick the terms; you want to choose the date. You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.
- Jodi Picoult
I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
- Jesse Jackson
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
He wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in a painting. You have to do it from inside yourself... You could do it if you wanted to fight for it. If you'd lived right with your eyes.
- Ernest Hemingway
you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
- Ilona Andrews
Fuck easy, Ceri. If you love him, fight for him. Nothing worth keeping is free in this world.
- Ilona Andrews
If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.
- Alexis Arguello
You just need to know, I gotta fight to keep what we got so we can build on it, I will. Him, your Dad, you, I don't give a fuck. In my life, I've learned when to let shit go and when to fight. This, babe, what we got, I'll fight for.
- Kristen Ashley
In my life, I've learned when to let shit go and when to fight. This, babe, what we got, I'll fight for.
- Kristen Ashley
You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living!
- Amelia Atwater Rhodes
It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.
- Emilie Autumn
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
- Joe Baca
We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else.
- Michele Bachmann
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
- Roger Nash Baldwin
The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.
- Pat Barker
The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.
- Michael D Barnes
And you chose to fight for Artemis instead, what kind of stupid are you? (Jeff)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I want you to show him to Zeth and the rest of the Olympian dogs who fight for us. (Noir)
Anything else, Master? Lick your boots? Wipe your ass? (Asmodeus)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
So what do wolves do to date?" Nick asked.
"We don't date," Vane said. "When a woman is in season, we fight for her and then she picks who mounts her."
Nick gaped. "Are you kidding? You don't have to buy her dinner? You mean you don't even have to talk to her?" He turned to Acheron. "Dayam, Ash, make me a wolf.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I thought it would be a good thing to follow John Redmond's words. I thought for my mother's sake, her gentle soul, for the sake of my own children, I might go out and fight for to save Europe so that we might have the Home Rule in Ireland in the upshot. I came out to fight for a country that doesn't exist, and now, Willie, mark my words, it never will.
- Sebastian Barry
If it's wild to your own heart, protect it. Preserve it. Love it. And fight for it, and dedicate yourself to it, whether it's a mountain range, your wife, your husband, or even (god forbid) your job. It doesn't matter if it's wild to anyone else: if it's what makes your heart sing, if it's what makes your days soar like a hawk in the summertime, then focus on it. Because for sure, it's wild, and if it's wild, it'll mean you're still free. No matter where you are.
- Rick Bass
When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.
- Joan Bauer
I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
- Ahmed Ben Bella
You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.
- Saul Bellow
In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tension toward a breaking point, and men are unhappy and confused. At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?
- John Steinbeck
This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
- John Steinbeck
Regarding "thou mayest":
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
- John Steinbeck
And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
- John Steinbeck
Fight for change? Thirst for difference?
Start talking what men avoid talking about.
- Toba Beta
I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.
- Rob Bishop
The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.
- Richard Parks Bland
She was no longer a slow dreamer watching the flowers grow. She was a warrior now. Warriors need something to fight for though, beside their lives, because otherwise their lives will not be worth it.
- Francesca Lia Block
We cannot fight for love as men may do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo.
- William Shakespeare
Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field, You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius! Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex: We cannot fight for love, as men ay do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. I'll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.
- William Shakespeare
I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
- Ray Bradbury
We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
- Barbara Boxer
Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
- Barbara Boxer
I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.
- Barbara Boxer
It appears to me that man must always have war. When one great rebellion ends, another will begin. Do they fight for a great cause or is it egos that must be conquered?
- Nancy B Brewer
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
- Harry Bridges
I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
- Adam Brody
Marty chose, instead, to show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay. There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.
- Max Brooks
... show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.
- Max Brooks
In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
- Arthur C Brooks
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
- Rita Mae Brown
You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.
- Eric Brown
to fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs.
- Charles Bukowski
Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
- Chuck Palahniuk
But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.
- Bernhard Von Bulow
I am Tarzan of the Apes. I want you. I am yours. You are mine. We live here together always in my house. I will bring you the best of fruits, the tenderest deer, the finest meats that roam the jungle. I will hunt for you. I am the greatest of the jungle fighters. I will fight for you. I am the mightiest of the jungle fighters. You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter. When you see this you will know that it is for you and that Tarzan of the Apes loves you.
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
- Smedley Butler
Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
- Karel Capek
... a country where we seldom understand that we must be prepared to fight for issues bigger than an umpire's decision at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- Peter Carey
DEATH
...
And now you are here to fight for this woman.
You know her promise is given.
She has to die or her husband won't go free.
APOLLO
Relax, I'm not breaking any laws.
DEATH
Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws?
APOLLO
I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.
- Anne Carson
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
- C J Cherryh
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
- Marian Wright Edelman
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It's all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
- Emil Cioran
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.
- Tom Clancy
I do not know her as you do, but I have shared each step of this journey with her, watched her fight for her life, and held her each night while she slept. I cannot help but care for her.
And suddenly Connor was glad Joseph had chosen to sleep in the loft.
- Pamela Clare
Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very difficult journey of repairing, rescuing, restoring our British economy, and they want us, and they want particularly Liberal Democrats in government, to fight for the fairest possible way of doing that.
- Nick Clegg
In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.
- David Clement Davies
You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
- Hillary Clinton
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
- Arthur Hugh Clough
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
- Hunter S Thompson
I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.
- Terry Pratchett
I will be strong enough to go without the tablet. But there are other things I'm not strong enough to go without, and I intend to fight for them. (Cassia Reyes)
- Ally Condie
I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.
- Jim Courier
If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
- Norman Cousins
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
- William Cowper
I'll continue to fight for school choice and home schooling. Do I believe in accountability? You bet I do.
- Charlie Crist
Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.
- Herbert Croly
You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.
- Christopher Cross
How about it, Skywalker? Will you still fight for me after we've been married for twenty-odd years?"
"What do you mean by 'still'? You do your own fighting. If I forget that, I'm not likely to survive until our twentieth anniversary."
Mara & Luke
- Elaine Cunningham
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
- James Darcy
Love is the battlefield, those who want true love has to fight for it. Beyond differences created by humans such as caste, creed, country, religion, race and culture.
- Santosh Kalwar
I go out of my way to make sure you don't have any reason to feel jealous, but when you do get possessive, I like it. I want you to fight for me. I want you to care that much. I want you crazy about me. But possessiveness without trust is hell. If you don't trust me, we've got nothing.
- Sylvia Day
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
- Eugene V Debs
The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
- Gilles Deleuze
After Spain, World War II was simple. I wasn't even tempted to pick up a gun to fight for General Motors, U.S. Steel, or the Chase Manhattan Bank, even if Hitler was running the other side.
- David T Dellinger
Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.
- Sarah Dessen
It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
- Sarah Dessen
It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
- Sarah Dessen
It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--or impossible-- to lose.
- Sarah Dessen
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
- Princess Diana
When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
- Byron Dorgan
I knew one "fighter for and idea" who told me himself that when he was deprived of tobacco in prison, he was so tormented by this deprivation that he almost went and betrayed his "idea," just so that they would give him some tobacco. And such a man says: "I am going to fight for mankind." Well, how far will such a man get, and what is he good for? Perhaps some quick action, but he will not endure for long.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.
- Simone Elkeles
Intent and dreaming is nice but its not, will never be enough. If you want something bad enough in life then you must fight for it or go after it. Life doesn't just come to you.
- R M Engelhardt
I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.
- Kevin Eubanks
We must fight for our country and forget our differences. There can be but two parties: the party of patriots and the party of traitors..
- Seth Grahame Smith
But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.
- Louis Farrakhan
As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
- Luis Figo
They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled...mother's big enough, wide enough for us to hide in...mother's who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us.
- Janet Fitch
Most of us are content to exist and breed and fight for the right to do both, and the dominant idea, the foredoomed attest to control one's destiny, is reserved for the fortunate or unfortunate few.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
- Ian Fleming
I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
- Vicente Fox
America does not fight for land, glory or riches.
- Virginia Foxx
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity even under the most difficult circumstances to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal
- Viktor E Frankl
I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
- Ace Frehley
Life is hard, Kid, you gotta be harder. You gotta take it on and fight for it and be a fucking man about how you live it.
- James Frey
Don't fight forces, use them.
- R Buckminster Fuller
So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
- Barack Obama
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
- Neil Gaiman
I told them to place a cyvasse table in your chambers.
Who was I supposed to play with?
Yourself. Sometimes it is best to study a game before you attempt to play it. How well do you know the game, Arianne?
Well enough to play.
But not to win. My brother loved the fight for its own sake, but I only played such games as I can win.
- George R R Martin
Some would fight for any cause, some for none at all.
- George R R Martin
We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.
- David Gemmell
I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.
- Gina Gershon
If only non-hypocrites are going to fight for the environment then it will be an army of none. (60)
- David Gessner
It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference. (50)
- David Gessner
If ever there was something she needed to stick around and fight for, Luc was that something.
- Rachel Gibson
...what good would it
do to
shutter your windows, never
dream of rainbows or find hope
in promises? Why choose to
walk away
rather than hold your ground
and fight for love?
- Ellen Hopkins
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.
- Witold Gombrowicz
It was a fight for a very long time. After the end of the first season, all that was done.
- John Goodman
I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.
- Abraham Lincoln
I need you to protect me from being lonely. Don't fight for me. Be with me.That's what I need.-Bianca to Lucas
- Claudia Gray
All of you cowboys, fight for your land.
- Woody Guthrie
Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.
- H Rider Haggard
It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.
- Laurell K Hamilton
Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.
- Fred Hampton
Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.
- Kristin Hannah
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
No matter what the results, it is my choices that define me. And I will fight for them, even when it seems that failure is inevitable. Perhaps most especially then.
- Cat Hellisen
The catholics fight for the dogma of their God. The Nazis fight for victory on the battlefield. And then there's Alucard...
If you really think about it, they all fight for the same thing. The revitalization of a dream. How very unfortunate..
- Kohta Hirano
You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.
- Alice Hoffman
We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.
- Larry Holmes
..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.
- Bell Hooks
...take it from someone who's had it before...you don't want to let it slip away. Fight for her.
- Colleen Hoover
I'm not the kind of man to bottle up my feelings, Kells. I don't sit up in my room pining away, writing love poems. I'm not a dreamer. I'm a fighter. I'm a man of action, and it will take all of my self-control not to fight for this. When something needs to be done, I do it. When I feel something, I act on it. I don't see any reason why Ren deserves to get the girl of his dreams and I don't. It doesn't seem fair that this happens to me twice.
- Colleen Houck
I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.
- Zora Neale Hurston
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
- Hypatia
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen
You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen
Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I'm not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it's about the work, not about how big my trailer is.
- Amy Irving
We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.
- Alija Izetbegovic
To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?
- Criss Jami
She will fight for light, and he for dark,
Battling through the ages for loves sweet spark.
Wherever two souls adore truly, you will find them, lo,
The brave Juliet and the wicked Romeo.
- Stacey Jay
It's okay to be happy, it's okay to live your life exactly the way you want it... It's okay to find what makes you happy and then to fight for it. To dedicate your life to discovering who you are.
- Derrick Jensen
And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.
- Joan Jett
I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.
- Joan Jett
We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in
- Jewel
If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.
- Garry Kasparov
Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.
- Lauren Kate
I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
- Jon Katz
fight for what you believe in,
for if you don't you will be forever fighting against yourself.
- Keisha Keenleyside
I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.
- Anna Kendrick
But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
- Vanessa Kerry
WHETHER IT'S A CHILD'S TOY OR A NATION'S OIL, IT'S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT. AGGRESSION. IT'S THE SPICE OF LIFE. War was right: people had to fight for what they wanted. Or maybe balance, as Famine has said -- strength matched with temperance.
No, she thought. Not balance, Control. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT CONTROL, War agreed merrily. [as in the meaning of why wars happen]
- Jackie Kessler
I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever.
- Klaus Kinski
If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.
- Masashi Kishimoto
The fight for you was all I've ever known.
- Tj Klune
I am not interested in medals or titles. I don't need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.
- Olga Korbut
Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
- Vladimir Kramnik
If you give me wings
I will soar for you
Even if this whole land
Sinks down to the water
If you give me a sword
I will fight for you
Even if this whole sky
Shoots through with your light
- Tite Kubo
There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. Serpine will have won only when there is no one left to stand against him. Until then, there is only the struggle, because tides do what tides dothey turn.
- Derek Landy
We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
- James Larkin
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
- James Larkin
Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.
- James Larkin
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
- D H Lawrence
What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.
- John Linder
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
- Laura Linney
I wanna get back
To the old days
When the phone would ring
And I knew it was you
I wanna talk back
And get yelled at
Fight for nothing
Like we used to
Oh kiss me
Like you mean it
Like you miss me
Cuz I know you do
I wanna get back, get back
I wanna get back, get back
I wanna get back, get back
Get Back
- Demi Lovato
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.
- Sergei Lukyanenko
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.
- Wangari Maathai
Because there is a time for all things. My people, like you, believe in peace. But sometimes, the only way to have peace is to fight for it. (Zenobia)
- Kinley Macgregor
And yet you're a knight. (Rowena)
Because I have seen the great evil that is done on this earth to those who can't fight for themselves. The meek only inherit the grave while the strong go on until someone stronger stops them. (Stryder)
- Kinley Macgregor
I really fight for my privacy.
- Kyle Maclachlan
I still have more to fight for in the coming years.
- Hermann Maier
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
- Malcolm X
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
- William Manchester
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
- Thomas Mann
You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.
- Charles Manson
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
- Mickey Mantle
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
- Imelda Marcos
I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.
- Susana Martinez
Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.
- John Mccain
Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.
- John Mccain
...most people who've been around awhile know [love's] just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lost it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.
- Colum Mccann
Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you're lucky enough to find it, you stay there. Other people say it just becomes a cliff you drive off, but most people who've been around awhile know it's just a thing that changes day by day, and depending on how much you fight for it, you get it, or you hold on to it, or you lose it, but sometimes it's never even there in the first place.
- Colum Mccann
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.
- David Mccullough
I said I wasn't going to fight with you about Jared anymore, I never said I wasn't going to fight for you.
- Jamie Mcguire
When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.
- Stephenie Meyer
I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.
- Stephenie Meyer
I didn't come here to fight with you. I'm here to fight for you.
-Evan
- Mayandree Michel
I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.
- Barbara Mikulski
As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
- John Stuart Mill
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
- Zell Miller
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