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Quotes About Fighting

Come on, you apes! You wanta live forever?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Always take an honor guard with you. If you have to go, go down fighting. The size of your guard of honor determines your status in hell.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
it cannot be the intention of Congress or the Executive Department (defendant) to provide the aged Private Ryans a discriminatory hemlock drink from the cup of life after reaching age sixty-five. If in fact that is the intention, then this government of William Jefferson Clinton is not worth fighting for.
~ Robert Coram
Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cute the opponents. Good luck.
~ Khaled Hosseini
The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish custom but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It's said that the reason the elves and demons began their war is because of a broken alliance," he said, the world-weary damage to his face making him look wise. "I've always found it to be true—that the best of friends make the bitterest of enemies. Elves and demons, forever fighting. Who is to say that demons weren't the slaves of elves first?
~ Kim Harrison
Every person has a right to the small things, you see? The little happinesses. After all, those are the ones that make life most worth living. It's what we're fighting for.
~ Kim Harrison
A body like that was good for two things that started with f. And fighting was the other one.
~ Kresley Cole
Jo worshipped fighting. She dreamed about being a comic-book superheroine -- just so she'd have an excuse to mess people up. With no superpowers on the horizon, she'd launched a one-girl guerrilla war, kicking the ant mound and running.
~ Kresley Cole
I often imagine myself engaged in a slew of activities to transform their destiny; a genie fighting against evil. Wishful thinking perhaps, but the tedium and tension involved in the very process pushes aside such cogitations and I return to a self-centred life of good meals and an air-conditioned room.
~ Kuldip Nayar
Why, I'm not afraid to go anywhere, if the Cowardly Lion is with me, she said. I know him pretty well, and so I can trust him. He's always afraid, when we get into trouble, and that's why he's cowardly; but he's a terrible fighter, and that's why he isn't a coward. He doesn't like to fight, you know, but when he HAS to, there isn't any beast living that can conquer him.
~ L. Frank Baum
We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.
~ Jon Bernthal
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
~ Vance Havner
You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.
~ Daniel Cormier
Senator Walsh has a long history of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat. He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf.
~ Steve Bullock
Men like him, the kind of guys who left the womb fighting? They didn't get fairy-tale endings. They burned bright until they burned out—and he was burning out.
~ Tonya Burrows, Broken Honor
The guy I was fighting earlier... He'll do. Get him out here... Waste of my time, man. How Dare.. ..You-?! Whomp!! -Yusuke (YuYU Hakusho)
~ Yoshihiro Togashi
Otaguro's bosom heaved with an ineffable surge of joy. "Every man is fighting," he murmured. "Every man.
~ Yukio Mishima
We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance. Fighting for our rights is a natural thing, but things don't often go according to rights, and rights have to be maintained one way or another. My main worry is, will we be able to hold onto our rights once we get them? Only the good-will of the world will help us do that in our present situation.
~ Zee Edgell
Fighting for peace is not the solution, but loving for peace is the solution.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
He came outta nowhere, and he was like Jackie Chan or something. I mean, I never saw anybody fight like that.
~ Deborah Blake
Because it was said that a man had to appreciate beauty in order to know what he is fighting to protect.
~ Deborah Smith
I'm in the mood for some fighting." "If there is," Stephanie said, handing him his gun, "here's something you can use." "Ah, bless. I've missed her. Do you have bullets?" "Uh, no." Skulduggery paused. "Excellent," he said, and tucked the gun away.
~ Derek Landy