Fighting Quotes

In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.

~ Cameron Conaway

Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it

~ Bradley Bowman

Nosoi?” Percy planted his feet in a fighting stance. “You know, I keep thinking, I have now killed every single thing in Greek mythology. But the list never seems to end.”“You haven’t killed me yet,” I noted.“Don’t tempt me.

~ Rick Riordan

I jumped between them holding my hands up in front of me to stop the onslaught. We would all sit down and figure this out as rational adults. We’d been adults for a century at least, and it should not be a problem. It appeared to be a problem.

~ Jessica Fortunato

The best things in this world are meant to be fought for. -Kearney

~ Brittany L. Engels

Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

In life, toughness and roughness go together.

~ Auliq Ice

Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They fought—not because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough.

~ Nelson Algren

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

~ Ken Scott

I should at least die as I had lived—fighting.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Your endurance is strongly influenced byyour fundamental myth about the fighting.

~ Toba Beta

Kasta looked from one of them to the other, the two of them shaking hands, understanding each other's concern. She didn't see where Giddon came off feeling insulted. She didn't see how Giddon had any place in it at all. Who were they, to take her fight away from her and turn it into some sort of understanding between themselves? She would knock his nose from his face. She would thump them both, and she would apologise to neither.

~ Kristin Cashore

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

~ Bruce Lee

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

~ Tamora Pierce

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

~ H.g. Wells

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

~ Frank Herbert

I must do whatever I can to find the best partners possible. Did you kick their butts? He frowned. The buttocks are among the least sensitive places to hit someone. I laughed. It's a figure of speech. To kick butts. Interesting.

~ Allison Van Diepen

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

~ Anne Frank

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.

~ James K. Morrow

And now, born from the ashes, she’s a warrior in bloodied black.

~ Amie Kaufman

The Wet Tongue Gets Stuck To A Frozen Flagpole attack!

~ Hiromu Arakawa

There are no 'ifs' in combat. When you win, you win, When you lose, you lose.

~ Clamp

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

~ Kristin Cashore

Wraith snorted. Cowards. Seriously. Who brings a gun to a knife fight? That's cheating.You don't have a gun? Kynan asked.Wraith made a face of digust. It's not very sporting to shoot people.So you're saying that you didn't shoot the people who shot you?Hell, yeah, I shot them.

~ Larissa Ione

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

~ Orson Scott Card

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

~ Paulette Jiles

In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

~ Scott Lynch

Love is not running away or giving up, it is standing and fighting for every moment.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,What mighty contests rise from trivial things,...

~ Alexander Pope

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?

~ Ava Gardner

the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fight.

~ Taylor Swift

I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters.

~ Neil Gaiman

Then, aided by the booze, like a fool I tossed off one of those throwaway lines that would have been better thrown away. Ah, Frank! I thought you were going to be down here fucking Lana.

~ Ava Gardner

If they look as though they're worried, we'll move in.''And do what exactly?' said Polly.'Threaten to shoot them,' said Maladict firmly.'And if they don't believ

~ Terry Pratchett

Who hit you?Clara.Clara!She whaled me one in return for upsetting you. Well, at least, that was the main reason.

~ Kristin Cashore

I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If awoman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

~ Karen Hawkins

Stefan spat. Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

~ Tamora Pierce

The afternoon breeze would incite to a weird and flabby activity all that crowded mass of clothing, with its vague suggestions of drowned, mutilated and flattened humanity. Trunks without heads waved at you arms without hands; legs without feet kicked fantastically with collapsible flourishes; and there were long white garments, that taking the wind fairly through their neck openings edged with lace, became for a moment violently distended as by the passage of obese and invisible bodies. On these days you could make out that ship at a great distance by the multi-coloured grotesque riot going on abaft her mizzen-mast.

~ Joseph Conrad

There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn’t hang up on.

~ Mark Capell

THE FLECKS OF MY ENEMY'S BLOOD THAT STAIN THIS SUIT. THEY'RE MY PRIDE AND JOY. THIS SUIT LOOKS WHITE BECAUSE OF THE RED OF THE BLOOD ON IT. THAT'S WHY I FIGHT.FOR YOU BIG BRO. THE AWSOMELY INSANE. TO MAKE YOU AWSOMELY HAPPY...WHETHER AT AOGIRI OR AT GOAT, I'VE FOUGHT AT THE VERY FRONT LINES. ALL THE WAY.AND TOWARDS THE END, I EVEN LEARNED A FEW NEW WORDS. I HAD FUN. IF ONLY I HAD KNOWN A FEW MORE WORDS, I'D HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TALK TO YOU MORE, BIG BRO.I THINK ABOUT THAT SOMETIMES. I DON'T THINK JUST LIVING IS THAT BIG OF A DEAL. I REALLY BELIEVE I'LL BE ABLE TO SEE YOU IF I DIE.SO I'M NOT SCARED. DEATH ISN'T THAT BAD. I HATE THE FACT THAT I LOST, THOUGHBUT YOU KNOW, BRO. I... I'M NOT SAD AT ALL.NAKI

~ Sui Ishida