Fight Quotes

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

~ Paul Robeson

To go to hospitals and see people fight and overcome cystic fibrosis or cancer or any number of illnesses is to see courage that is humbling. And athletes constantly need to be humbled.

~ Dale Murphy

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

~ Roy Barnes

Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.

~ Anthony Fauci

I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that's not just a health issue, but I'll be knocked off that king's stool.

~ Anthony Joshua

As one ages, eventually, no matter what regime you've followed, no matter how fiercely you've fought the fight, good health becomes harder to maintain. It may disappear overnight or simply dwindle, but with every year that passes, the odds shorten.

~ Laurie Graham

You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.

~ Laila Ali

There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights.

~ John Trudell

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

~ Steven Wright

There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.

~ Cobie Smulders

I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.

~ Paige Vanzant

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

~ Famke Janssen

Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.

~ Lina Wertmuller

I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.

~ Mark Duplass

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

~ Eugene V. Debs

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

~ Winston Churchill

When Pearl Harbor was bombed, young Japanese-Americans, like all young Americans, rushed to their draft board to volunteer to fight for our country. That act of patriotism was answered with a slap in the face. We were denied service and categorized as enemy non-alien.

~ George Takei

In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

~ Tom Hooper

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

~ Bill Kristol

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

~ Plato

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

~ John D. Rockefeller

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

~ Joel Osteen

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

~ Alexander Pope

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

~ Craig Venter

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

~ Jeff Bridges

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

~ Edmund White

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, 'It must be a good thing to fight for.'

~ Edmund White

Never fight an inanimate object.

~ P. J. O'rourke

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

~ Chris Robinson

There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related to China. So a lot of conceptions about China in literary representations in the West are things you can't even fight against because they've been there so long that they've become part of the Western imagination of China.

~ Ken Liu

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

~ Günter Grass

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

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

~ Zell Miller

Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.

~ Andrew Ross Sorkin

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.

~ Ravi Shankar

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

~ Meg Whitman

I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've done, but I thought it was a really interesting use of technology and the fact that there's a whole group of people who can take over systems and fight things from behind the scenes.

~ Michelle Gagnon

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

~ George C. Marshall

I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's just some oil.

~ Lupe Fiasco