Best Fighting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.”

People Ifs Trying I Can Running Hate Fighting I Hate Running Away

“I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, 'Oh I want to talk to someone.' But the minute you take what bothers you outside the bond between you and your husband, you let someone else into the relationship and that causes a wedge.”

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Author:Jen Lancaster

“I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.”

“What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.”

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Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“It's been so long since I was in a real fight.”

Long Real Fighting

Author:Method Man

“We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.”

Fighting Corruption Bureaucracy Wastefulness

Author:Nong ?uc Manh

“As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.”

Needs Problem Fighting Waiting Renewal

Author:Nong ?uc Manh

“If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.”

Ifs Should States Fighting Force Nations United United States Gone Middle Iraq Canada United Nations Neighbour Multinationals Muddle

Author:Peter MacKay

“I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.”

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Author:Rooney Mara

“Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.”

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Author:Rose McGowan

“I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.”

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Author:Rose McGowan

“I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.”

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Author:Gary Neville

“Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.”

Way Hard Fighting Games Easy Player Compliment Disagree

Author:Graham Nelson

“I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.”

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Author:LeRoy Neiman

“I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.”

Trying Lasts Fighting Standing

Author:Li Na

“Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.”

Fighting Constitution

Author:Michael Newdow

“When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.”

Sometimes Fighting Loses Impossible

Author:Ehud Olmert

“Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work.”

Fighting Acting Careers Prove Proving Yourself

Author:Miranda Otto

“Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.”

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Author:Olusegun Obasanjo

“Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.”

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Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.”

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Author:Jackson Browne

“I'm ready to fight, I've been looking for my baby all night. If I get her in my sight, boom, boom, out go the lights.”

Ifs Light Night Fighting Violence Ready Baby Sight All Night Violence Against Women My Baby

Author:Little Walter

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”

Source: The Art of War

“I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.”

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Author:Jason Statham

“How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it's not easy.”

Fighting Easy Simple Answers Stupidity

Author:William C. Brown

“I believe God will fight my battles for me.”

Believe God Fighting I Believe Battle Gods Will Believe In God

Book:It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set

Source: It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set

“...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed.”

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Author:Ze'ev Jabotinsky

“I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.”

Reason Fighting China Neighbor Related No Reason Resent Taiwan

Author:Annette Lu

“If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.”

Ifs Years Country Fighting Energy Technology Cutting Cost Committed Spending Billions Massive Cents Carbon Gdp Save A Life

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.”

Fighting Crime Tools Stopping

Author:Blanche Lincoln

“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.”

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Author:Bev Perdue

“I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.”

Fighting College Windmills

Author:Bill Parcells

“Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.”

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Author:Daniel Pipes

“I think there is a heritage which I’m proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.”

Thinking Country Fighting Father Social Justice Principles Democracy Proud Six Social Justice Jail Heritage Grandfather Exile My Grandfather Fighting For Freedom

Author:George Papandreou

“I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.”

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Author:Jeremy Piven

“Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.”

War Seems Moving Fighting

Author:Pete du Pont

“Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.”

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Author:Russell Pearce

“I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.”

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Author:Robert Quine

“So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men'.”

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Author:Cecile Richards

“I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address.”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.”

Thinking Looks Fighting Accepting Battle

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.”

Want Fighting Coaches Injury Exhausted Discomfort Teammate Headache

Author:Christie Rampone

“Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.”

Looks Fighting Religious Manifestation Visible Against Religion Militancy

Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.”

Ideas Hard Moving Fighting Knowing Hard Work Discipline Perfection Foundation Elusive Choreography

Author:Keri Russell

“Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.”

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Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

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