Fight Quotes

"Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"Because actually it's really hard to get things made. It takes years. To fight the fights you inevitably have to fight, even when you've produced Harry Potter, you'd better have the commitment and the passion to knock down walls, not take no for an answer"

David Heyman, Producer

"We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

"We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment"

Ansel Adams, Photographer

"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation"

Robert E. Lee, General

"I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good"

Tom Felton, Actor

"Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend"

William Cowper, Poet

"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name"

William Morris, Designer

"You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it"

Lionel Messi, Athlete

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight"

Samantha Smith, Celebrity

"I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac"

Ray Liotta, Actor

"If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it"

James D'arcy, Actor

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

Nong Duc Manh, Politician

"With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing"

Kelly Hu, Actress

"I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children"

Barry McCaffrey, Soldier

"The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape"

Owen Hart, Entertainer

"It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else"

Michele Bachmann, Politician

"I have no choice but to fight them every step of the way. I can't tell you how many other stupid ideas have been proposed over the last two years"

Michael Arad, Architect

"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious"

Saddam Hussein, Criminal

"No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic"

James Larkin, Activist

"And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali"

Wilt Chamberlain, Athlete

"You can best fight any existing evil from the inside"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine"

Daniel Akaka, Politician

"With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

"When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything"

Cindy Sheehan, Activist

"I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back!"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

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