Fighting
Quotes - Beware! Friends are like chameleons
“This
is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being
tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class
citizens in this United States of America”
―
Paul Robeson
“Peaceful
disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally,
logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really
certain that wars are instigated.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“The
simple view is that medicine exists to fight death and disease, and that is, of
course, its most basic task. Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior
forces. Eventually, it wins. And, in a war that you cannot win, you don't want
a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don't want Custer.
You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knows how to fight for territory that can
be won and how to surrender it when it can't, someone who understands that the
damage is greatest if all you do is battle to the bitter end.”
―
Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“Congratulations.
You
have survived
the
war.
Now
live
with
the trauma.”
―
Lori Jenessa Nelson
“That’s
what peace is, right? Postponing the conflict until the thing you were fighting
over doesn’t matter.”
―
James S.A. Corey, Drive
“Poets,
like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”
―
Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“If
other people owe you an apology, and your words of apology to them are proper
and heartfelt, you still may not hear from them for a while. After all, what
are the odds that they get to the right emotional place to apologize at the
exact moment you do? So just be patient. Many times in my career, I saw
students apologize, and then several days later, their teammates came around.
Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded.”
―
Randy Pausch
“Beware!
Friends are like chameleons, for they can turn enemies overnight.”
―
Oscar Auliq-Ice
“So
many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in
so hard that you just smile and tell them ”watch me”. Learn to take rejection
as motivation to prove people wrong. Be unstoppable. Refuse to give up, no
matter what. It’s the best skill you can ever learn.”
―
Charlotte Eriksson
“Are
the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we
are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight
against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big
question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any
war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack,
then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield
situation.”
―
Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
“the
battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd
rather love than fight.”
―
Taylor Swift
“What
dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What
mighty contests rise from trivial things,...”
―
Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
“Just
like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in
the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if
there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the
other would be hell.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“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.”
―
Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“If
you listen closely, silence can be deafening.”
―
Truth Devour, Wantin
“Not
my finest hour," he says, shaking his head.
"You
realize you did it for no reason," I say. I tell him about talking to my
dad and explain that I was crying because of that.
"That
information would have been useful BEFORE I shoved him in the pool.”
―
Heather Hepler, Love? Maybe.
“Great
idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police.”
―
Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story
“I’ve
learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling
the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open.
Hands open. Open. O Pen.”
―
Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“Marriage
is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.”
―
Amit Kalantri
“Your
endurance is strongly influenced by
your
fundamental myth about the fighting.”
―
Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“The
wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of
mangled men, who had been trained for this”
―
Seth Tucker, Friedkin's Curse: A Werewolf Tale of Terror
“I'll
show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your
fucken face for starters.”
―
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“Humility
is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on
earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to
assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same
mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn
from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than
any other cause on earth. Is massacring God’s creations really serving God – or
the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided
and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for
monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
