Fighting
Quotes - Life doesn’t give you what you want
“If
the sole purpose is not to secure the peace, it might look like a battle when
in fact it is a collective rant in uniform.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Some
people need a poke in the eye to show them the right direction, others simply
need pointing in the right direction. It is a question of having the wisdom to
know when to point and when to poke.”
―
Geoff Thompson, The Art of Fighting without Fighting: Techniques in Personal
Threat Evasion by Geoff Thompson (25-Sep-1998) Paperback
“Not
every battle is a call to arms.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Life
doesn’t give you what you want. Life gives you what you fight for.”
―
Sotero M Lopez II
“The
Ukraine war is Russia fighting the independent former Russian country of
Ukraine.”
―
Steven Magee
“What
was the point of fighting if there was nothing, no one, to fight for?”
―
Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“However
little we may like it, toughness is the price of survival.”
―
George Orwell, Selected Essays
“The
greatest way to waste a life is to expend it fighting for something that was
popular with the masses but empty of everything else, as those are the battles
that most people are fighting and the disappointment that every one of them are
experiencing.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The
Ukraine war is really Russia fighting the expansion of NATO onto its borders.”
―
Steven Magee
“I’d
been fighting the idea for weeks. It kept coming to my mind and I kept battling
it out. No matter how hard I fought against it, I found myself veering towards
that which I despised.”
―
Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey
to finding purpose
“I
was told that even if I had years of sobriety, I would always be an addict, and
I believed it. Since my identity was that of an addict, didn’t that mean
abstinence from drugs was contrary to my identity and doing drugs was in
alignment with it? This confused me because if I believed this philosophy, it
meant I would never heal from my disease; I would only go into remission. It
also meant that the harder I tried to abstain from drugs, the more I was
fighting against who I really was.”
―
Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey
to finding purpose
“If
I'm going down-'
'You'll
go down fighting,' he finished for me.
I
nodded.
'Like
I said, you're very brave.'
'I
don't think it's bravery.' I returned to staring at my hands. 'I think it's...
fear.'
'Fear
and bravery are often one and the same. It either makes you a warrior or a
coward. The only difference is the person it resides inside.'
My
gaze lifted to him in stunned silence. It took me a moment to formulate a
response. 'You sound so many years older than what you appear.'
'Only
half of the time,' he said. 'You saved lives tonight, Princess.'
I
ignored the nickname. 'But many died.”
―
Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash
“You
heard me, Smotes, and if it happens again, even once, I'll be back, and next
time, I'll hurt you in ways that will make you useless to women.”
―
Alistair Cross, The Midnight Ripper
“She’d
staggered up that hill more times than she could count. The struggle was
actually comforting in a way. Something to fight against, even if it was only
gravity.”
―
Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck
“Around
the world or in our own back yards
There
is large scale war or neighbors fighting
Around
the world near and far, there is killing
What
will we do?
Around
the world or in our own back yards
There
is large scale love and neighbors caring
Around
the world near and far, are love and healing
What
will we choose?”
―
Emilyann Allen
“The
Dark Cloud
Is
the rumination about suicide you experience after a terrible divorce
Is
the unbelievable stamina you get from having a reliable source
Is
the power you receive when you know that you’re right
Is
the injustice that wants to constantly argue and to fight”
―
Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud
“If
I'm fighting for money, I'll stop hitting you when you or the referee asks me
to. If we are fighting for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.”
―
Rickson Gracie, Breathe: A Life in Flow
“I
know you'll keep going forward, Quinlan- even if it sucks.'
'What
makes you so sure of it?'
His
feet were silent as he crossed the kitchen. She tipped back her head to hold
his stare. 'Because you pretend to be irreverent and lazy, but deep down, you
don't give up. Because you know that if you do, then they win. All the
asp-holes, as you called them, win. So living, and living well- it's the
greatest fuck you that you can ever give them.'
'That's
why you're still fighting.'
He
ran a hand ver the tattoo on his brow. 'Yes.'
She
let out a hmm, stirring the mixture in the pain again. 'Well then, Athalar. I
guess it'll be you and me in the trenches for a while longer.'
He
smiled at her, more openly than he'd dared do with anyone in a long while. 'You
know,' he said, 'I think I like the sound of that.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood
“Shadow
had just finished ripping apart another of the fauns which had strayed too
close, in his bloodthirsty estimation, to me. He was so large now that he would
intimidate a warhorse, his fur long and rippling like seaweed in dark undersea
currents, and forming a mane about his head.”
―
Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands
