Fighting Quotes

Valek was liquid in motion. As i watched him, one word came to mind: beautiful.

~ Maria V. Snyder

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

~ T.c. Boyle

Regardless of what others may tell you, you only need two Mexican-Americans for a Mexican standoff.

~ Alejandra Díaz Mattoni

Is there ever a time you’re not an arrogant bastard?”“Is there ever a time you’re not a difficult bitch?”“No.”“Then I guess that makes us perfectly matched, now doesn’t it?

~ G.a. Aiken

Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

So how you're gonna play this? Trenton asked.Divide and conquer.Divide what?His head from the rest of his body.Trenton nodded quickly. Good plan.

~ Jamie Mcguire

Eby wanted to say so much to her. She wanted to say that waking up is the most important part of grieving, that so many women in their family failed to do it, and she was proud of Kate for fighting her way back. But Eby didn't say anything. She could fix a lot of things, but family wasn't one of them. It was one of the hardest things she'd ever had to come to terms with.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.

~ Craig Stone

We get crazy when we can't make things be like the world tells us they are. She looked back out the window. It was that way for me and your brother, I think. I mean, how could I have loved him that last year? I didn't even know who he was. He was way more attracted to drugs and bikers and that whole lifestyle than he was to me. But somebody told me that if you really loved somebody,you stayed with him no matter what. You had to fight for him. She laughe. Hell, I was convinced.

~ Chris Crutcher

Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.

~ Veronica Roth

Proper apologies have three parts:1) What I did was wrong.2) I feel badly that I hurt you.3) How do I make this better?

~ Randy Pausch

I don't lose. Do you hear me? I don't lose and that includes losing you. I'm done being kept in the dark. Im done feeling like you're slipping right past me. You are not saying goodbye to me. I'm in love with you and you love me back. You are staying.

~ Katie Mcgarry

I can't lie. This—me and you—scares the shit out of me.I'd be worried if she weren't frightened. Me too, but wouldn't you rather be scared together thanbe miserable apart? Because I know that's what I'd be without you.

~ Georgia Cates

Halfhearted or insincere apologies are often worse than not apologizing at all because recipients find them insulting. If you've done something wrong in your dealings with another person, it's as if there's an infection in your relationship. A good apology is like an antibiotic; a bad apology is like rubbing salt I the wound.

~ Randy Pausch

A knight can fight. As you well know, I fight about as well as a pillow.That's an insult to pillows. At least they can take a beating.

~ Eli Brown

So you do have some claws after all!' (Wyea)'You have no idea,' Ren responded and charged.

~ Colleen Houck

The answer to enemies who heal annoyingly fast is always, always decapitation. That is why swords will never go out of style.

~ Kevin Hearne

If other people owe you an apology, and your words of apology to them are proper and heartfelt, you still may not hear from them for a while. After all, what are the odds that they get to the right emotional place to apologize at the exact moment you do? So just be patient. Many times in my career, I saw students apologize, and then several days later, their teammates came around. Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded.

~ Randy Pausch

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

~ Ann Aguirre

You deny our vows. You deny my rights. You abuse my pride and leave me nothing of yourself. You send me from you on some lackey's strength. You betray me at every turn. Shanna met his glare and hurled a fierce reply. You took my heart and set your fingers firm around it, then, no doubt delighted at your success, you rent it with unfaithfulness.Unfaithfulness is only from a husband. You play the same to me and yet do say I am no spouse.You plead you are my husband true and spite the suitors come to woo me.Yea! Ruark raged. Your suitors flock about your skirts in heated lust, and you yield them more than me.Shanna paused before him, rage etched upon her face. You're a churlish cad!They fondle you boldly and you set not their hands away from you.A knavish blackguard!You are a married woman!I am a widow!You are my wife! Ruark shouted to be heard over the rising wind outside.

~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of the map, but in his harsh, impetuous soul.

~ Vasily Grossman

The fight migjt be over but nobody wins if you both go home in body bags.

~ Mikayla Nicole

He grabbed me with both hands and began pushing me backward.I lost my balance. The ledge was at an angle, and it was covered with loose gravel. I was less than a foot from the edge.It was at that very moment that the clouds parted. The September sun burst through. The entire world was illuminated.Time shattered into moments.I could see for a hundred miles in every direction.I could see mountain peeks and pristine lakes. And I could somehow feel as well as see the never-ending drop that toyed with me, ruffling my hair, pulling at my back, one step behind me.

~ Axel Avian

Grand Mage,” Ghastly said, as he put the map away, “did you know the sparrow flies south for the winter?”“What an odd thing to say,” Ravel said, and as he turned, he snapped his palm against the air and Paloma slammed into the wall.”…..“What do you know,” Ravel said, breathing a little faster, “Skulduggery’s silly little code actually works.”“Grand Mage,” Ghastly said, as he put the map away, “did you know the sparrow flies south for the winter?”“What an odd thing to say,” Ravel said, and as he turned, he snapped his palm against the air and Paloma slammed into the wall.”…..“What do you know,” Ravel said, breathing a little faster, “Skulduggery’s silly little code actually works.

~ Derek Landy

There are three kinds of fighters: the aggressive fighter who charges in blindly trying to get the upper hand, the defensive fighter who blocks and evades until his opponent is tired, and then the most dangerous type of fighter, the one who waits for his opponent to make a mistake.

~ Aaron B. Powell

Being physically tough is measured by how many fights you win, but mental toughness is measured by how you react when all the chips are stacked against you, how fast you get back on track when life kicks you in the nuts. Any fool can win a fight, but it takes a person with true grit to never give up when all seems lost.

~ Benjamin Bayani

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.

~ Charles Bukowski

Men broke into their homes, killed their families, threatened you--and you won't let them do anything for fear you'll be hurt. That's selfish. How would you like it if I took your bow and said I cared too much about you to let you fight?

~ Tamora Pierce

It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face.

~ Matt Bondurant

I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.

~ Kevin Powers

I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

When you are in a combat situation, you mustn’t let your mind be polluted by emotions like fear and anger. Simply accept the situation and react, even if you are facing impossible odds. Keep your head clear and you will be one step ahead of your attackers.

~ Aaron B. Powell

It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was.

~ Neal Shusterman

Zahara roared and threw herself at him, smacking Bryan back against the ground and swinging a right hook into his nose. She exclaimed in triumph as her fist connected with his face, hoping it hurt his nose as bad as the punch hurt her knuckles. Zahara’s triumphant smile turned into a yelp of pain as Bryan knocked her onto her back and rolled her onto her stomach, twisted her arms behind her, and locked them in place with a grip strong enough to bend steel.

~ Annabell Cadiz

When we neared the orchard a flock of birds lit from its outer rows. They hadn't been there long. The branches shook with their absent weight and the birds circled above in the riddy mackerel sky, where they made an artless semaphore. I was afraid, I smelled copper and cheap wine. The sun was up, but a half-moon hung low on the opposite horizon, cutting through the morning sky like a figure from a child's pull-tab book.We were lined along the ditch up to our ankles in a soupy muck. It all seemed in that moment to be the conclusion of a poorly designed experiment in inevitability. Everything was in its proper place, waiting for a pause in time, for the source of all momentum to be stilled, so that what remained would be nothing more than detritus to be tallied up. The world was paper-thin as far as I could tell. And the world was the orchard, and the orchard was what came next. But none of that was true. I was only afraid of dying.

~ Kevin Powers

If We Must DieIf we must die, let it not be like hogsHunted and penned in an inglorious spot,While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,Making their mock at our accursèd lot.If we must die, O let us nobly die,So that our precious blood may not be shedIn vain; then even the monsters we defyShall be constrained to honor us though dead!O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!What though before us lies the open grave?Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

~ Claude Mckay

I wanted to beat the heck out of the JV guys for that, except I wouldn't know what to do in a fistfight without a manual.

~ Carrie Harris

I've never, ever, ever -- in my entire life -- fought over a man. I've fought women who've hit me because of a man, but then I was fighting to bust her ass, not defend his.

~ Karen E. Quinones Miller

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita