"I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight."
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"I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered."
"But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts"
"All of you cowboys, fight for your land."
"Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting."
"I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental, that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others. I have to fight against being discouraged, because I don't want to be connected with people who are so intolerant of much of mankind like that. God loves us all. He really does. And I want to walk in love with people."
"But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight."
"You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance."
"I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?"
"If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union."
"You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it."
"Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability."
"Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What, after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises, but 'fighting for peace?' Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace."
"The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so."
"Working on television is therapeutic to me. When that camera comes on all negativity vanishes. I forget about the fight I had with my neighbor. I forget about the pain in my left foot. I forget about my dog dying. Performing, for me, is an emotional cure all."
"The fights I've learned the most were always the fights I lost."
"Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting."
"Though are hands are chained like they are, they haven't taken music from us yet. So that's how I'll fight. People tell me don't quit like everyone else. I wont have no fear."
"He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy."
"I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds"