Fighting
Quotes - What are you fighting for?
“What
are you fighting for? If you’re fighting to be lied to, fighting to be hurt, or
fighting to be used, it’s time to change the battle plan. Start fighting to let
go. It's time to channel your energy into freeing yourself from what drags you
down. Letting go is the toughest but most rewarding fight you'll ever take on.
So, drop the toxic baggage and make space for something better. Fight for your
peace, your happiness, and your worth. Trust me, it’s a battle worth winning!”
―
Life is Positive
“To
fight or not to fight...it was never a question, but rather a matter of when
and how.”
―
The Black Sheep
“Some
don’t accept that in order for Israel to actually survive, terrorists, the
agents of those who wish Israel destroyed, must be fought. Fighting terrorists
isn’t always so clean. Innocent people get hurt.”
―
David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel
“And
then the bastard smiled at me. He smiled the same smile I’d seen a thousand
times. A hundred thousand. It was the smile that said, 'I know best.’ The smile
that said, ‘I’m better than you.’ The smile that said, 'I'm safe here and
you're not.' The smile that said, 'I have a dick, so I win.’
Rage
rolled up in me like the sea and I felt it sweep over my head, threatening to
drown me. And then I heard a voice, small but still. A voice I hadn’t heard in
forty years. I closed my eyes and listened. ‘It isn’t your anger that will make
you good at this job, it is your joy.’ The rage ebbed and in its place, only
happiness. Fierce, rampant happiness. It wasn’t the prettiest fight I’d ever
been in but it was the most ferocious.”
―
Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age
“Her
glee - not so much either, that sickening triumphant glee that some people get
who certainly deserve to have faces slapped, but the glee of someone who finds
herself alive for an instant in all the awfulness when her usual condition was
to feel completely dead - well, that glee ceased, as I knew it would, for I had
got her where I wanted her, where I had intended to get her, right at her
centre. That's where I would have been got had she, or anybody, said those
words to me. She slapped my face then, a recoil reaction, because I had got in
where I'd no right to get in and even though in the moment I considered myself
of every right, I did not, could not, slap her back. After the initial
satisfaction of shocking her, of shaming her out of her victory, already I was
regretting my words. So enough. I wanted her to go now, to take herself and her
make-do husband, and his dirty slanders which had started everything, and to go
now. Things were not gentle, not ever, then.”
―
Anna Burns, Milkman
“This
called for bare hands, stilettos, booted feet, flesh-on-flesh, bone-on-bone,
hearing the cracks, causing the cracks, venting all that pent-up anger.”
―
Anna Burns, Milkman
“Only
the barbarian fights and shouts. The cultivated individual negotiates
diplomatically, with exceptional etiquette.”
―
Anje Kruger
“The
antagonist will lose enthusiasm when he sees no prospect of gain. Convince the
antagonist that he will gain very little by attacking you.”
―
Anje Kruger
“No
big rivers were created without a few streams.
No
battles were fought without a few bruises.
No
winters were survived without a few tears.”
―
lauren klarfeld, Last words for the road
“You
have to love everyone, not only women, but men as well. You don't have to have
sex with a man, but you have to be able to relate to his separate physicality.
If you don't, you will never be able to fight him, to drive our fist through
his chest, to snap his neck, to gouge out his eyes”
―
Bruce Lee
“I
thought I pitied him before, but he's fighting for a woman he barely even
knows, which means he's just fighting for the sake of fighting.”
―
Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us
“If
you’ve somehow been able to find the time to continually talk about the battles
that you’re fighting in your life, it may be that the battles are more
skirmishes laced with a bit of fiction.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“They
were bleeding. They were broke. But they were not done.”
―
Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves
“But
the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was
terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted
and Keema was repulsed.”
―
Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water
“It's
too bad the military draft has an upper age limit. Imagine the beautiful
society we would have if WWIII were fought exclusively by Boomers.”
―
Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music
“If
we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost
Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost
causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our
successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight
rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will
triumph.”
―
T.S. Eliot, For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays Ancient & Modern
“I'm
not marrying you,' I spat.
'Yes,
you are.'
'Fuck
you. I am not.'
A
muscle feathered in his cheek.
'It's
the only way I can keep you alive. If you're not my wife, you're my enemy. And
I can't justify letting you go.”
―
Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“The
basics of the Ukraine war is Russia fighting European and USA supplied
weapons.”
―
Steven Magee
“No
one makes it through a war with clean hands. If you won’t start killing, better
find someone who will.”
―
Peter Hale
