F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fighters with 13 fights are winning world titles, and of course they don't know how to behave.”
“Fighting a change and clinging to the same old ways of doing things have never proved to be productive for anyone - you or your customers.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Fighting a cold, but I'm powering through. As they say, there's nothing better for a cold than doing interviews all day.”
“Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float.”
“Fighting a Mardi-Gras-In-New-Orleans crowd for eight blocks from Trahan’s Tavern on St. Peter to Bourbon O on Bourbon was like a man being willing to swim the Nile, climb Mount Everest, and cross the Sahara for true love.”
Source: My Best Friend's Mardi Gras Wedding
“Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn't bother fighting it.”
“Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.”
Source: Yes Please
“Fighting An Effect While Nourishing And Cherishing The Cause In Your Heart Is One Sure Way Of Falling Flat On Your Face! Fight The Cause!!!”
Source: Risk It, Be Different
“Fighting and arguing amongst brothers are normal. Living together can also cause disagreements. I don't think it will work if there's none.”
“Fighting and losing is sometimes politically preferable to surrendering in silence.”
Source: Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
“Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“Fighting as an underdog: enduring everything imaginable, but never losing the will to go on.”
“Fighting: As with most couples, probably, most of our fights were not about anything, but rather about fighting itself. We negotiated the rules, slowly, stupidly, over time. The word “sulk” got banned early on, in the summer of 1990. “Pout” was soon to follow. “Don’t start” was banned in the fall of 1992.”
Source: Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
“Fighting at home doesn't add any pressure - they call it "home-field advantage" for good reason. I don't have to travel. I get to sleep in my own bed the night before the fight.”
“Fighting back tears of parting, he tugged at her sleeve.
Your presence with me
and this dewdrop life of mine
have this in common:
that tonight, for all I know,
the end is to come for both.
Striving likewise not to cry, she replied,
If this is the end
and the two of us must part,
then this dewdrop, too,
is certain to melt away,
my love, even before you.”
Source: The Tale of the Heike
“Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.”
“Fighting by itself doesn't interest me anymore. I want to help people, the black people and I need any kind of media to spread my thought: God, charity, peace.”
“Fighting can be like champagne. It can go to the head of a coward as quickly as of a hero. Anyone has the ability to be brave on a battlefield; when you are forced with the choice of: Be brave or... be killed.
You may not realize it, but most of us have the chance to be heroes off the battlefield. When we take a stance and find our inner courage, instead of looking the other direction when we encounter evilness or oppression.”
Source: Mi Vida
“Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.”
“Fighting cancer is not about fearlessness; it's about courage in the presence of fear.”
“Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.”
“Fighting climate change isn't just an obligation we owe to future generations. It's also an opportunity to improve public health - and drive economic growth - in the here and now.”
“Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.”
“Fighting corruption will only be effective when we attack its real cause: the materialism that distorts our virtues.”
“Fighting Dad's not a fight. Fighting dad is, "Hi, you've just instigated your own mugging! Come on down!"”
“Fighting demons is what I do; real, and those in my head.”
Source: Devil May Care
“Fighting disparities is very significant.”
“Fighting does not make you a hero. Love does.”
“Fighting doesn’t feel good anymore. It feels like breaking something because you don’t know how to fix it.”
Source: Wayward Son
“Fighting dragons is my holy joy.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1930–1973
“Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight”
“Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!”
“Fighting evil is like arguing with an idiot.”
“Fighting evil, it's hard work.”
“Fighting faults isn't easy as I know and a cheery word kind of gives a lift”
Source: Little Women
“Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!”
“Fighting fire with fire will burn the whole world to ashes.”
“Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.”
“Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.”
“Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.”
“Fighting for kids and families has been the cause of my life.”
“Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.”
“Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.”
“Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.”
“Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense.”
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”
“Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.”
“Fighting for something you believe in isn't easy. If you hit a sore spot, people are going to swipe at you, gripe at you, try to undermine you, infuriate you, try to shut you up and put you back in your box. I was starting to learn that was a sign you were asking the right questions, picking the right scabs. And though it's easy to lose yourself along the way, and start focusing on all the people who don't want things to change--for whatever broken, messed-up reasons of their own--you can easily find your way back. By listening to the people giving you a hand up. To the people who have your back. To the people who don't think you're a raving lunatic. Let them be your mirror--not the haters. Let them give you the strength to get the job done.”
Source: What's a Girl Gotta Do?