Fighting
Quotes - I do not fight
“The
day was perfect. Hot, yes, but with a refreshing zephyr sidling in from the west.
The lagoon was flecked with small islands, and beyond lay the more ominous
mainland, the papal army camped somewhere on it. But here, on this beautiful
islet far from our usual universe, a warrior pope seemed a figment.”
―
Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice
“But
as she and Rin had both discovered, the battles were easy. Destroying was easy.
The hard part was the aftermath.”
―
R.F. Kuang, The Burning God
“I
learned to sleep through the day so that I would not be tired when he returned;
he always needed to talk then, to tell me down to the last detail about the
faces and the wounds and the movements of men. And I wanted to be able to
listen, to digest the bloody images, to paint them flat and unremarkable onto
the vase of posterity. To release him from it and make him Achilles again.”
―
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“I’ve
had enough fighting
I’m
more into righting
What’s
wrong when it’s broken apart
Demons,
demons, we both had enough of our own
Demons,
demons, we don’t have to fight them alone”
―
Dolly Parton, Run, Rose, Run
“I
would rather die a free man fighting to stay free than live in a world with no
freedom.”
―
Jeffrey Fry
“To
live means to fight - the slave for freedom, and the free for perfection.”
―
Yane Sandanski
“I
did everything I could to avoid problems, but I made mistakes and had to pay
for them by summoning all my meager reserves of courage. If you ever ask
yourself what you would do in such a position, I can assure you that you don’t
really know until it happens. I’ve seen the toughest cats bitch up and run to
the cops for help, and the clearly outclassed go into battle with no hope of
winning but every intention of fighting for honor. I suppose I fell somewhere
in the middle.”
―
Daniel Genis
“How
often is the battle less about the battle and more about being strengthened
because of the battle?”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“In
the shallow glory of victory, there is momentous cost. Enemies are forged there
while peace is irremediably devastated.”
―
Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse
“Some
Goliath shows up every day. And despite the fact that I ran out of stones a
long time ago, I keep using the sling. And as I do, amazingly enough the
Goliath’s keep falling, for God is the God of giants, absent stones, and empty
slings.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The
essential insanity of fighting the truth is that we are fighting against the
very thing that is incessantly fighting for us.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“When
we’re fighting, no one is able to properly communicate, find understanding, or
resolve conflict.”
―
Jessica Marie Baumgartner
“Screw
the punch; you want a knock-out, don’t you?”
―
Teresa Denys
“It
was 2008, I was age thirty eight and fighting chronic fatigue and mental
functioning issues daily. Coffee was my best friend! But the coffee did not fix
me, it just helped perk me up to get me to work daily. I was living the
“American Dream”. I had my green card work visa, I was a resident of the USA
and I could work for any employer I wanted to! But I felt lousy every day.
Getting out of bed was hard after a poor night of sleep.”
―
Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease
“Better
to go down a hero then run away a coward.”
―
Avery Clarke
“My stomach
is in instant pain and I feel that terrible adrenaline again. I hate the crowd
even more than the fighters and I see myself learning that proximity to pain is
a particular pain of its own.”
―
Ani Baker, Handsome Vanilla
“Broken,
bruised, but still fighting! Never ever give up on your dreams.”
―
Avijeet Das
“I
do not fight. I have never punched anyone.
I
have stolen books once and once some paperclips, without really knowing why.
I
almost killed three passengers in my car by looking for a cassette in the glove
compartment while I was going one-eighty on the highway. I wanted to write a
book entitled 'In the car', made up of remarks recorded while driving.
I
have never filed a complaint with the police.”
―
Édouard Levé, Autoportrait
“I
am more willing to recognize the reality of intractable conflict, and use force
when nothing else will serve.”
―
Elizabeth Moon, Oath of Fealty
“Dogs
are fighting outside so you can go outside and fight like dogs or be smart and
sit down and do your job!”
―
Mehmet Murat ildan
“I
have a bad habit of racing death and winning.”
―
Barry Allen "The Flash"
“We
forget we are making history whether or not we think we are worthy of being
remembered.
We
are here.
History
books are always being written.
The
flood is here, and there are countless lifeless bodies in the current.
The
flood does not give a shit. It just floods.
Every
day there is a new strain, a new disaster, or a new reason to stop fighting.
Still,
we
are here.
Fighting
to survive is not new.
But,
let us not forget
that
evolution has
always
been
a function of extinction.
Life
must go on, somehow.
Overwhelming
loss suffocates us just as much as the pollution.
But,
every time there is another reason to not fight,
we
must remember:
Those
of us who fight the hardest,
who
evolve despite,
are
those of us
who
shape the backbones
of
those who are to follow us.”
―
Belle Townsend, Push and Pull
“...
all you have to do is hold on long enough to get to the “mostly okay” part.”
―
Seth King, All We Ever Wanted
“Those
who live are those who fight.”
―
Victor Hugo
“On
the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an
ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam
rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy in Saigon.”
―
Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
“The
Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked
ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What
gives with these Kampuchean People?”
―
Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
“Colonel
Nguyen Van Tan said, “Sauget et Sang, you shall start making amends by
confessing your crimes in public here, in this courtroom when the reporters
from news services around the world arrive!”
―
Michael G Kramer Omieaust, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
“The
Argienti stopped moving, and the one nearest Erasmus said, “Give us the pendant
and we will make your death painless.”
Erasmus
frowned. That…really wasn’t a very good place to start negotiations, to be
completely honest.”
―
M.J. Raynaud, A Perfectly Ordinary Day
“The
fact that you believe that your life is free of any battle evidences the fact
that you’re fighting one of the worst battles that you can fight. And that is
the battle of denial.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I
find it curious that people are prone to ‘fight to the death’ for the very
things that will ultimately ‘fight for their death.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
