You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
- John Lennon
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
- J R R Tolkien
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
- J R R Tolkien
That there is some good in this world Mr.Frodo, and that it's worth fighting for! - Sam Gamgee
- J R R Tolkien
Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.
- Alexandra Adornetto
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
- Andre Agassi
He's worth fighting for, but I won't change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.
- Ann Aguirre
Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained.
And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued.
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
- Cecelia Ahern
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
- Cecelia Ahern
Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope
Insurgent
- Veronica Roth
I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?
Well,necessary or not, they happen.
When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.
The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !
- 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
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
- Paulo Coelho
There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.
- Paulo Coelho
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
- Muhammad Ali
If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.
- Cassandra Clare
Aloysisus Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate-" She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte's mouth so firmly set into a hard line.
"Would you like a thesaurus?" Will inquired.
- Cassandra Clare
Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. "Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate" She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte's mouth so firmly set into a hard line.
"Would you like a thesaurus?" Will inquired. "You seem to be running out of words.
- Cassandra Clare
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
- Ernest Hemingway
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
- George Allen Sr
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.
- Lisa Kleypas
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
- Bea Arthur
I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do.
- Michele Bachmann
He was surrounded and they were hungry for what few brain cells he had left. But you know what? He wasn't about to give in or give up. If he was going out, it would be the way he had come into this world.
Fighting for every single breath.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Answer my question, Bacchus. I'm not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus)
You better take a more civil tone with me, Cam. I'm not one of your flaccid Celts to shake in terror of your wrath. You want to fight, boy, bring it on. (Dionysus)
Whoa, hang on a second. Let's save the fighting for when you two take over the world, okay? (Styxx)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Out of curiosity, why would you have tried to destroy the world?"
"Ever attempted to hunt down a parking space at Christmas? Buy a shirt in a store the day after Thanksgiving? Those two things alone will make you doubt the humanity of humans, and question if survival of the species is in anyone's best interest. What are we fighting for, anyway? Better department store sales?
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Talking of politics, I would like to reiterate that Arabs are people. By that I mean they are not merely an anonymous mass of peasants with nothing worth fighting for, as the Western world sees them. On the contrary, they are people with great traditions and the highest values, for all our reluctance to assess them impartially.
- Albert Camus
It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.
- John Steinbeck
I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.
- Tom Berenger
On more practical level, sometimes joyfulness
could be more valuable than fighting for truth.
- Toba Beta
Let us admit that we have attended parties where for one brief night a republic of gratified desires was attained. Shall we not confess that the politics of that night have more reality and force for us than those of, say, the entire U.S. Government? Some of the "parties" we've mentioned lasted for two or three years. Is this something worth imagining, worth fighting for? Let us study invisibility, webworking, psychic nomadism--and who knows what we might attain?
- Hakim Bey
The media called us ruthless terrorists. We're not. We're just fighting for what's right. Being born a nought shouldn't automatically slam shut myriad doors before you've even drawn your first breath.
- Malorie Blackman
Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
- Michael Bloomberg
Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow
- William Shakespeare
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
- Alain De Botton
Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.
- Brom
This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our physical survival, but for the survival of our civilization. We don't have the luxury of old-world pillars. We don't have a common heritage, we don't have a millennia of history. All we have are the dreams and promises that bind us together. All we have...is what we want to be.
- Max Brooks
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
- Gwendolyn Brooks
We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.
- George Bernard Shaw
But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
- Charles Bukowski
He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.
- Rick Riordan
She was beautiful in combat. I know that's a crazy thing to say, especially after we'd just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray eyes sparkled when she was fighting for her life. Her face shone like a goddess's, and believe me, I've seen goddesses. The way her Camp Half-Blood beads rested against her throatOkay, sorry. Got a little distracted.
- Rick Riordan
Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes falling, but if we stand together and help shield and strengthen one another, imagine the world that we will live in together, having more happiness with one another, at one another's side.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
- Tim Burton
Pain is a byproduct of life. That's the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That's true for everyone. But if you don't face the pain and the suck, you don't ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.
- Jim Butcher
I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.
- Albert Einstein
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
- George Carlin
I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.
- James Carville
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
- Stephen King
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
In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.
- Julia Child
We must remain steadfast in our commitment to our troops, and to those fighting for a free and democratic Iraq because freedom makes our country and the world a safer place.
- Chris Chocola
Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.
- Max Cleland
A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.
- Grover Cleveland
Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.
- Jim Clyburn
If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.
- Glen Cook
I didn't want to accept failure. Even though sometimes the strength it takes to admit failure is probably worth as much as the determination not to quit. So there you have, I was stuck fighting for a relationship with a boyfriend who, in truth be told, I'd rather forget ever existed.
- Caprice Crane
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
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
- Clarence Darrow
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
- Larry David
Behind these eyes
there is a girl trapped within
her pain a girl feeling all the emotions
of anger and sadness.
She's fighting for a way out. (In her eyes, p. 39)
- Chimnese Davids
Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for.
[Jack kisses Rose passionately]
Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward.
[Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]
- Russell T Davies
Easy things aren't worth much. Your hand in mine is worth a great deal, Leticia." he said, helping to my feet. "That's what I'll be fighting for tomorrow.
- Delilah S Dawson
We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them.
- Sylvia Day
You make this sound like a chore for you, like a job. This...," he pressed his fingers to my heart, "it's about love for me--undying, unwavering, unrelenting love. A love that won't let me move on, it won't let me get over you. I don't want to focus on the sickness that could replace you in my heart. I don't want to think of what will happen if I stop fighting for you, for us. But, sometimes I feel like I'm alone in this fight.
- Jordan Deen
I'm not going to let anyone Wendy me."
"Wendy you? What the hell does that mean?"Talbot asked.
"Wendy, from Peter Pan! Peter and the lost boys set to go off fighting pirates while Wendy has to stay back and clean their stupid tree house. We'll, I'm not doing it. I'm fighting for my baby brother and that's final.
- Bree Despain
The truth is always an abyss. One must as in a swimming pool dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again laughing and fighting for breath to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
- Franz Kafka
Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.
- Larry Dixon
But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
- Larry Dixon
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.
- Novak Djokovic
There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.
- Jeffrey Donovan
He could not name precisely the special quality she possessed. A glow. An exuberance. An aggressive and determined joy that gave her the courage to push past his defenses, to confront him with unflinching courage, to look into his heart and to see something there worth fighting for.
- Susan Wiggs
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
- Milan Kundera
The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.
- Rick Warren
The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.
- Roberto Duran
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
- Bob Marley
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
- Eve Ensler
No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.
- Jim Evans
He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality.
- James T Farrell
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis the same for love as war.
- Laura Frantz
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
Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario.
- Seth Godin
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
- Pam Grier
And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!
- John Grisham
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.
- Michael Hastings
In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.
- Doc Hastings
Both observer and observed are parts of the world that has an objective existence, and any distinction between them has no meaningful significance. In other words, if you see a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage, it is because there really is a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage.
- Stephen Hawking
When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
- Salma Hayek
Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into Kuwait, 'that none of these boys is fighting for home, for the flag, for all that crap the politicians feed the public. They are fighting for each other, just for each other.
- Chris Hedges
I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.
- Rickey Henderson
It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated.
- J K Rowling
It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated..
- J K Rowling
Fight and keep fighting, for then evil can be sent a-bay, but never quite eradicated
- J K Rowling
Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.
- Christopher Hitchens
But you're the hardest thing I've ever done, and you're also the best. So... I think that's the moral of the story here. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
- Amanda Hocking
You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my tresure, everything I'm fighting for.
- Alice Hoffman
I'm fighting for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and I think if I win this campaign that people will take notice and the next time they select a candidate, they will look at the principles.
- Doug Hoffman
An ideal world in my own home... I'm not yet sure why the prospect appalls me quite so much, but I do know somewhere in me that (he) is wrong, that a life without hatred is no life at all, that my children should be allowed to despise whom they like. Now there's a right worth fighting for..
- Nick Hornby
He died fighting for what he believed in.
- Anthony Horowitz
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
- Charles Hamilton Houston
The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
- Lech Walesa
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
- Patricia Ireland
I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.
- Amy Irving
Pity is an emotion that should have never been created. Pity was strong and could break the backs of people fighting for survival and respect. I couldn't stand pity.
- Elizabeth Isaacs
So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds,
but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Be outrageous... rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through celebrating the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was!
- Molly Ivins
Nothing - not prestige, power or pride - is worth sacrificing the things that you truly want, the things that you truly love. Don't be afraid to take time and smell the roses. Don't hesitate in seeking out those things you hold dear. Seeking them out and holding on to them. And don't ever cease standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for those things that you want. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy, regardless of how others might feel.
- Brenda Jackson
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
- Stonewall Jackson
Let's not think about the worst. I believe that anything worth having is worth fighting for.
- Syrie James
I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
- Criss Jami
The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.
- Denis Johnson
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.
- Carrie Jones
In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.
- Rufus Jones
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
- Van Jones
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If my last name were Om, I'd want my first name to be Fred. Fred Om isn't worth fighting for, but an extra "e" is.
- Jarod Kintz
Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
- Lauren Kate
All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is made of love. Maybe that wasn't your plan when you created the universemaybe love was just one aspect of a complicated and brutal world.
But love was the best thing you made, and it has become the only thing worth saving. This war is not just.
This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
- Lauren Kate
...Love is the only thing worth fighting for
- Daniel, to The Throne
- Lauren Kate
There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
- Bob Kerrey
I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
- Vanessa Kerry
I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.
- Vanessa Kerry
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
- Jack Kevorkian
Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Sometimes...a person is up against more than they can handle. And sometimes a person loses, no matter what they're fighting for.
- Jessi Kirby
If you need a reason to get involved in world politics, all you need to do is watch a playground of children for awhile. Imagine a world that happy and free all the time, that vision is the future worth fighting for.
- Laurance Kitts
I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.
- Mary Landrieu
I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?
- Stephanie Lennox
We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.
- Eva Longoria
I watch him walk away with the only family he has left and I know why Adam joined the army.
I know why he suffered through being Warner's whipping boy. I know why he dealt with the horrifying reality of war, why he was so desparate to run away, so ready to run way as soon as possible. Why he's so determined to fight back.
He's fighting for so much more than himself.
- Tahereh Mafi
Many people lost their lives fighting for these rights - to vote, to be free, to work, to be able to get on the same bus as someone considered their superior. And it was the next generations who embedded these changes, who came to view women as equals to men, who came to understand that skin colour is of no relevance. Young people are the future. Without them, the world stands still.
- Gemma Malley
I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
- Floyd Mayweather Jr
No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle.
- Bob Mcdonnell
But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
- Paula Mclain
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H L Mencken
Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area.
- Louise Mensch
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
- Laura Miller
For I am fighting for the old days, the old ways which I love so much, but which, I fear, are now gone forever, no matter how the die may fall. For, win or lose, we lose just the same. - Ashley Wilkes, Gone with the Wind
- Margaret Mitchell
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
- Margaret Mitchell
The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.
- Beth Moore
A great American city is fighting for its life.
- Marc Morial
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
- Iris Murdoch
He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her.
But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?
- Guillaume Musso
Freedom is about life or death, I would rather die fighting for it than die running away from the oppressor
- Peter Mutanda
If I'm going to have a fight I got to see the win in it so I'll know what I'm fighting for.
- Walter Dean Myers
If you're such a shallow person that a goddamn bumper sticker can sum up your beliefs, then Jesus Christ, are you even worth fighting for in the end?
- Jason Myers
Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
- Fatos Nano
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
- John Negroponte
As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
- Willie Nelson
It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.
- Eiichiro Oda
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
- Ben Okri
We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
- Peter Pace
When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.
- Sarah Palin
Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
- Diana Palmer
They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.
- Christopher Paolini
I'm not the person I once was. I have Thorn now, and... I'm not fighting for myself anymore....It makes a difference....I used to think you were a fool to keep risking your life as you have...I know better now. I understand...why. I understand...' His [Murtagh] eyes widened and his grimace relaxed, as if his pain was forgotten, and an inner light seemed to illuminate his features. 'I understand-we understand.
- Christopher Paolini
The most punk-rock thing you can do in L.A. is to say 'George Bush is fucking awesome' instead of talking about how lame it is that he's fighting for oil.
- Trey Parker
Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.
- Ron Paul
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
- Nancy Pelosi
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
- Leonard Peltier
Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.
- Louise Penny
I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.
- Bev Perdue
Bearing my mother's face was a daily reminder that I could be as strong as she had been. And fighting for what I wanted most in life was the best way to keep her alive in my heart.
- Amy Plum
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
- Ernie Pyle
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
- Bob Riley
We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
- Scott Ritter
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.
- Paul Robeson
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards the centre of the stage, life went on fighting for equal rights.
- Salman Rushdie
I catch my breath but he's not finished. I love you, Annah. And if you're willing to risk everything to be with me, then I'm willing to risk everything to be with you. I'm going to keep fighting for you, every day of my life. If you'll have me.
- Carrie Ryan
I'm fighting for the Commonwealth title on Saturday and I believe I'll be ready for a world title shot in the next 18 months.
- Billy Joe Saunders
I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.
- Luke Scott
But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.
- Dee Snider
We're all scarred. That's how we know we've lived a life worth fighting for. Love is a battlefield! Thank you, Pat Benatar!
- J Sterling
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
- Helen Suzman
FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost.
- Taylor Swift
Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire in their lyrics.
- Ice T
How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
- Studs Terkel
Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.
- Marcel Theroux
A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
- Elie Wiesel
Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you're fighting for.
- Gail Tsukiyama
Why is this so hard?" I whispered.
His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. "Everything worth fighting for is hard.
- Rachel Vincent
I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
- Tom Waits
The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.
- Jim Walsh
Then you need to fight for him. Don't give up on something like that. It doesn't come along very often. And when you find it, you hold on tight. You lock that shit down with an iron fist and you never, ever let go. Even when life tries to take it from you, you smack life upside its head like a little bitch and you keep on fighting for it.
- A Meredith Walters
The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty -- that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
- George Washington
True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs
- Yuu Watase
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
- George Weinberg
Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.
- David Wong
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
- Elijah Wood
I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.
- Cole Younger
- John Lennon
There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.
- J R R Tolkien
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
- J R R Tolkien
That there is some good in this world Mr.Frodo, and that it's worth fighting for! - Sam Gamgee
- J R R Tolkien
Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.
- Alexandra Adornetto
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
- Andre Agassi
He's worth fighting for, but I won't change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.
- Ann Aguirre
Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained.
And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued.
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
- Cecelia Ahern
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
- Cecelia Ahern
Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope
Insurgent
- Veronica Roth
I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ?
Well,necessary or not, they happen.
When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes.
The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !
- 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
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
- Paulo Coelho
There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.
- Paulo Coelho
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
- Muhammad Ali
If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.
- Cassandra Clare
Aloysisus Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate-" She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte's mouth so firmly set into a hard line.
"Would you like a thesaurus?" Will inquired.
- Cassandra Clare
Charlotte slammed the paper down onto her desk with an exclamation of rage. "Aloysius Starkweather is the most stubborn, hypocritical, obstinate, degenerate" She broke off, clearly fighting for control of her temper. Tessa had never seen Charlotte's mouth so firmly set into a hard line.
"Would you like a thesaurus?" Will inquired. "You seem to be running out of words.
- Cassandra Clare
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
- Ernest Hemingway
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
- George Allen Sr
We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
I'll tell you what I'm fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. It's all come down to the hope of being with you.
- Lisa Kleypas
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
- Bea Arthur
I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do.
- Michele Bachmann
He was surrounded and they were hungry for what few brain cells he had left. But you know what? He wasn't about to give in or give up. If he was going out, it would be the way he had come into this world.
Fighting for every single breath.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Answer my question, Bacchus. I'm not one of your dickless Greeks to be kept waiting for an answer. (Camulus)
You better take a more civil tone with me, Cam. I'm not one of your flaccid Celts to shake in terror of your wrath. You want to fight, boy, bring it on. (Dionysus)
Whoa, hang on a second. Let's save the fighting for when you two take over the world, okay? (Styxx)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Out of curiosity, why would you have tried to destroy the world?"
"Ever attempted to hunt down a parking space at Christmas? Buy a shirt in a store the day after Thanksgiving? Those two things alone will make you doubt the humanity of humans, and question if survival of the species is in anyone's best interest. What are we fighting for, anyway? Better department store sales?
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Talking of politics, I would like to reiterate that Arabs are people. By that I mean they are not merely an anonymous mass of peasants with nothing worth fighting for, as the Western world sees them. On the contrary, they are people with great traditions and the highest values, for all our reluctance to assess them impartially.
- Albert Camus
It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.
- John Steinbeck
I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.
- Tom Berenger
On more practical level, sometimes joyfulness
could be more valuable than fighting for truth.
- Toba Beta
Let us admit that we have attended parties where for one brief night a republic of gratified desires was attained. Shall we not confess that the politics of that night have more reality and force for us than those of, say, the entire U.S. Government? Some of the "parties" we've mentioned lasted for two or three years. Is this something worth imagining, worth fighting for? Let us study invisibility, webworking, psychic nomadism--and who knows what we might attain?
- Hakim Bey
The media called us ruthless terrorists. We're not. We're just fighting for what's right. Being born a nought shouldn't automatically slam shut myriad doors before you've even drawn your first breath.
- Malorie Blackman
Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
- Michael Bloomberg
Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow
- William Shakespeare
There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
- Alain De Botton
Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.
- Brom
This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't just fighting for our physical survival, but for the survival of our civilization. We don't have the luxury of old-world pillars. We don't have a common heritage, we don't have a millennia of history. All we have are the dreams and promises that bind us together. All we have...is what we want to be.
- Max Brooks
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
- Gwendolyn Brooks
We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.
- George Bernard Shaw
But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
- Charles Bukowski
He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.
- Rick Riordan
She was beautiful in combat. I know that's a crazy thing to say, especially after we'd just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray eyes sparkled when she was fighting for her life. Her face shone like a goddess's, and believe me, I've seen goddesses. The way her Camp Half-Blood beads rested against her throatOkay, sorry. Got a little distracted.
- Rick Riordan
Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes falling, but if we stand together and help shield and strengthen one another, imagine the world that we will live in together, having more happiness with one another, at one another's side.
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
- Tim Burton
Pain is a byproduct of life. That's the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That's true for everyone. But if you don't face the pain and the suck, you don't ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.
- Jim Butcher
I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.
- Albert Einstein
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
- George Carlin
I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.
- James Carville
Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
- Stephen King
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
In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.
- Julia Child
We must remain steadfast in our commitment to our troops, and to those fighting for a free and democratic Iraq because freedom makes our country and the world a safer place.
- Chris Chocola
Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.
- Max Cleland
A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.
- Grover Cleveland
Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.
- Jim Clyburn
If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.
- Glen Cook
I didn't want to accept failure. Even though sometimes the strength it takes to admit failure is probably worth as much as the determination not to quit. So there you have, I was stuck fighting for a relationship with a boyfriend who, in truth be told, I'd rather forget ever existed.
- Caprice Crane
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
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
- Clarence Darrow
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
- Larry David
Behind these eyes
there is a girl trapped within
her pain a girl feeling all the emotions
of anger and sadness.
She's fighting for a way out. (In her eyes, p. 39)
- Chimnese Davids
Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for.
[Jack kisses Rose passionately]
Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward.
[Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]
- Russell T Davies
Easy things aren't worth much. Your hand in mine is worth a great deal, Leticia." he said, helping to my feet. "That's what I'll be fighting for tomorrow.
- Delilah S Dawson
We were together because we were addicted to each other. I was never as intoxicated as I was when we were happy together, and I knew it was the same for him. We were putting ourselves through the wringer for those moments of perfection between us, but they were so tenuous that only our stubbornness, determination and love kept us fighting for them.
- Sylvia Day
You make this sound like a chore for you, like a job. This...," he pressed his fingers to my heart, "it's about love for me--undying, unwavering, unrelenting love. A love that won't let me move on, it won't let me get over you. I don't want to focus on the sickness that could replace you in my heart. I don't want to think of what will happen if I stop fighting for you, for us. But, sometimes I feel like I'm alone in this fight.
- Jordan Deen
I'm not going to let anyone Wendy me."
"Wendy you? What the hell does that mean?"Talbot asked.
"Wendy, from Peter Pan! Peter and the lost boys set to go off fighting pirates while Wendy has to stay back and clean their stupid tree house. We'll, I'm not doing it. I'm fighting for my baby brother and that's final.
- Bree Despain
The truth is always an abyss. One must as in a swimming pool dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again laughing and fighting for breath to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
- Franz Kafka
Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.
- Larry Dixon
But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
- Larry Dixon
Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.
- Novak Djokovic
There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.
- Jeffrey Donovan
He could not name precisely the special quality she possessed. A glow. An exuberance. An aggressive and determined joy that gave her the courage to push past his defenses, to confront him with unflinching courage, to look into his heart and to see something there worth fighting for.
- Susan Wiggs
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
- Milan Kundera
The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.
- Rick Warren
The life of a boxer is about fighting for world titles.
- Roberto Duran
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
- Bob Marley
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.
- Eve Ensler
No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team.
- Jim Evans
He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality.
- James T Farrell
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis the same for love as war.
- Laura Frantz
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
Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario.
- Seth Godin
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
- Pam Grier
And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!
- John Grisham
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.
- Michael Hastings
In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.
- Doc Hastings
Both observer and observed are parts of the world that has an objective existence, and any distinction between them has no meaningful significance. In other words, if you see a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage, it is because there really is a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage.
- Stephen Hawking
When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
- Salma Hayek
Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into Kuwait, 'that none of these boys is fighting for home, for the flag, for all that crap the politicians feed the public. They are fighting for each other, just for each other.
- Chris Hedges
I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.
- Rickey Henderson
It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated.
- J K Rowling
It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated..
- J K Rowling
Fight and keep fighting, for then evil can be sent a-bay, but never quite eradicated
- J K Rowling
Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.
- Christopher Hitchens
But you're the hardest thing I've ever done, and you're also the best. So... I think that's the moral of the story here. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
- Amanda Hocking
You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my tresure, everything I'm fighting for.
- Alice Hoffman
I'm fighting for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and I think if I win this campaign that people will take notice and the next time they select a candidate, they will look at the principles.
- Doug Hoffman
An ideal world in my own home... I'm not yet sure why the prospect appalls me quite so much, but I do know somewhere in me that (he) is wrong, that a life without hatred is no life at all, that my children should be allowed to despise whom they like. Now there's a right worth fighting for..
- Nick Hornby
He died fighting for what he believed in.
- Anthony Horowitz
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
- Charles Hamilton Houston
The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
- Lech Walesa
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
- Patricia Ireland
I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.
- Amy Irving
Pity is an emotion that should have never been created. Pity was strong and could break the backs of people fighting for survival and respect. I couldn't stand pity.
- Elizabeth Isaacs
So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds,
but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Be outrageous... rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through celebrating the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was!
- Molly Ivins
Nothing - not prestige, power or pride - is worth sacrificing the things that you truly want, the things that you truly love. Don't be afraid to take time and smell the roses. Don't hesitate in seeking out those things you hold dear. Seeking them out and holding on to them. And don't ever cease standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for those things that you want. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy, regardless of how others might feel.
- Brenda Jackson
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
- Stonewall Jackson
Let's not think about the worst. I believe that anything worth having is worth fighting for.
- Syrie James
I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
- Criss Jami
The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.
- Denis Johnson
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.
- Carrie Jones
In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.
- Rufus Jones
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
- Van Jones
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If my last name were Om, I'd want my first name to be Fred. Fred Om isn't worth fighting for, but an extra "e" is.
- Jarod Kintz
Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
- Lauren Kate
All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is made of love. Maybe that wasn't your plan when you created the universemaybe love was just one aspect of a complicated and brutal world.
But love was the best thing you made, and it has become the only thing worth saving. This war is not just.
This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
- Lauren Kate
...Love is the only thing worth fighting for
- Daniel, to The Throne
- Lauren Kate
There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
- Bob Kerrey
I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
- Vanessa Kerry
I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.
- Vanessa Kerry
I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
- Jack Kevorkian
Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King
Sometimes...a person is up against more than they can handle. And sometimes a person loses, no matter what they're fighting for.
- Jessi Kirby
If you need a reason to get involved in world politics, all you need to do is watch a playground of children for awhile. Imagine a world that happy and free all the time, that vision is the future worth fighting for.
- Laurance Kitts
I'm fighting for small businesses. I'm not fighting for big oil. Don't be confused. And there are thousands of businesses in this state that are at great risk. Meanwhile, the country keeps guzzling the oil, but we're out of work down here. We need to get back to work to build this region, and we intend to do so.
- Mary Landrieu
I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?
- Stephanie Lennox
We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.
- Eva Longoria
I watch him walk away with the only family he has left and I know why Adam joined the army.
I know why he suffered through being Warner's whipping boy. I know why he dealt with the horrifying reality of war, why he was so desparate to run away, so ready to run way as soon as possible. Why he's so determined to fight back.
He's fighting for so much more than himself.
- Tahereh Mafi
Many people lost their lives fighting for these rights - to vote, to be free, to work, to be able to get on the same bus as someone considered their superior. And it was the next generations who embedded these changes, who came to view women as equals to men, who came to understand that skin colour is of no relevance. Young people are the future. Without them, the world stands still.
- Gemma Malley
I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
- Floyd Mayweather Jr
No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle.
- Bob Mcdonnell
But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.
- Paula Mclain
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H L Mencken
Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area.
- Louise Mensch
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
- Laura Miller
For I am fighting for the old days, the old ways which I love so much, but which, I fear, are now gone forever, no matter how the die may fall. For, win or lose, we lose just the same. - Ashley Wilkes, Gone with the Wind
- Margaret Mitchell
Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
- Margaret Mitchell
The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels.
- Beth Moore
A great American city is fighting for its life.
- Marc Morial
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
- Iris Murdoch
He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her.
But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?
- Guillaume Musso
Freedom is about life or death, I would rather die fighting for it than die running away from the oppressor
- Peter Mutanda
If I'm going to have a fight I got to see the win in it so I'll know what I'm fighting for.
- Walter Dean Myers
If you're such a shallow person that a goddamn bumper sticker can sum up your beliefs, then Jesus Christ, are you even worth fighting for in the end?
- Jason Myers
Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
- Fatos Nano
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
- John Negroponte
As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
- Willie Nelson
It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.
- Eiichiro Oda
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
- Ben Okri
We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
- Peter Pace
When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.
- Sarah Palin
Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
- Diana Palmer
They have not the heart for this battle. So think of your families, think of your homes, and remember it is they you are fighting for.
- Christopher Paolini
I'm not the person I once was. I have Thorn now, and... I'm not fighting for myself anymore....It makes a difference....I used to think you were a fool to keep risking your life as you have...I know better now. I understand...why. I understand...' His [Murtagh] eyes widened and his grimace relaxed, as if his pain was forgotten, and an inner light seemed to illuminate his features. 'I understand-we understand.
- Christopher Paolini
The most punk-rock thing you can do in L.A. is to say 'George Bush is fucking awesome' instead of talking about how lame it is that he's fighting for oil.
- Trey Parker
Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.
- Ron Paul
We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
- Nancy Pelosi
A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.
- Leonard Peltier
Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.
- Louise Penny
I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.
- Bev Perdue
Bearing my mother's face was a daily reminder that I could be as strong as she had been. And fighting for what I wanted most in life was the best way to keep her alive in my heart.
- Amy Plum
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
- Ernie Pyle
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
- Bob Riley
We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
- Scott Ritter
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.
- Paul Robeson
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards the centre of the stage, life went on fighting for equal rights.
- Salman Rushdie
I catch my breath but he's not finished. I love you, Annah. And if you're willing to risk everything to be with me, then I'm willing to risk everything to be with you. I'm going to keep fighting for you, every day of my life. If you'll have me.
- Carrie Ryan
I'm fighting for the Commonwealth title on Saturday and I believe I'll be ready for a world title shot in the next 18 months.
- Billy Joe Saunders
I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.
- Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.
- Luke Scott
But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.
- Dee Snider
We're all scarred. That's how we know we've lived a life worth fighting for. Love is a battlefield! Thank you, Pat Benatar!
- J Sterling
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
- Helen Suzman
FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost.
- Taylor Swift
Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire in their lyrics.
- Ice T
How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.
- Studs Terkel
Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.
- Marcel Theroux
A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
- Elie Wiesel
Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you're fighting for.
- Gail Tsukiyama
Why is this so hard?" I whispered.
His pulse leaped crazily at my admission. "Everything worth fighting for is hard.
- Rachel Vincent
I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
- Tom Waits
The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.
- Jim Walsh
Then you need to fight for him. Don't give up on something like that. It doesn't come along very often. And when you find it, you hold on tight. You lock that shit down with an iron fist and you never, ever let go. Even when life tries to take it from you, you smack life upside its head like a little bitch and you keep on fighting for it.
- A Meredith Walters
The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are free men, fighting for the blessings of Liberty -- that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
- George Washington
True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs
- Yuu Watase
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.
- George Weinberg
Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.
- David Wong
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
- Elijah Wood
I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.
- Cole Younger
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