Fighting
Quotes - Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself
“And
I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to
fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?”
―
Ava Gardner, Ava: My Story
“If
they look as though they're worried, we'll move in.'
'And
do what exactly?' said Polly.
'Threaten
to shoot them,' said Maladict firmly.
'And
if they don't believe us?'
'Then
we'll threaten to shoot them in a much louder voice,' said Maladict. 'Happy?
And I hope to hell they've got some coffee!”
―
Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment
“Your
first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must
not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate
thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it
is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose
which will in no way make them happy at the end!”
―
Mehmet Murat ildan
“His
face was pale, and he dropped to the floor so that he was half kneeling, half
sitting before her. "Please. I can...help you."
"No."
She wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. Her mind felt clearer now.
Everything made more sense when she wasn't so hungry. "I don't think I
want the help you have."
He
cradled his bloody arm and tried to stand. "This isn't right. You aren't
right. You aren't suppose to be here."
"But
I am.”
―
Melissa Marr, Graveminder
“In
The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live
here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.”
―
Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“The
white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned
people to do the fighting.”
―
Sherman Alexie, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“We
don’t choose our enemies, Robert thought. They choose us – and there is not a
damn thing we can do about it.”
―
Jennifer Valoppi, Certain Cure: Where Science Meets Religion
“Anyone
who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this.”
―
June White, Dana White, King of MMA
“Keep
to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think,
I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that he is an insecure prick who
should back off before you deck him. Instead, say, 'I feel you are acting like
an insecure prick who should back off before I deck you.”
―
Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows
“After
working for more than twenty-five years, I understood that I don’t do what I do
because it’s required or necessary or important. I don’t do it because I have
no choice.
I do
what I do because I’m broken, too.
My
years of struggling against inequality, abusive power, poverty, oppression, and
injustice had finally revealed something to me about myself. Being close to
suffering, death, executions, and cruel punishments didn’t just illuminate the
brokenness of others; in a moment of anguish and heartbreak, it also exposed my
own brokenness. You can’t effectively fight abusive power, poverty, inequality,
illness, oppression, or injustice and not be broken by it.
We
are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We
all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not
equivalent.”
―
Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
“We
got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us
that end up servin' overseas.”
―
Josh Thompson
“One
good punch from Rube on me would send the sky into my head and the clouds into
my lungs. I just always tried to stay up.”
―
Markus Zusak, Underdog
“Speed
will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.”
―
Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
“Because
of their lust for authority men are in constant turmoil. Those in authority are
ever fighting to maintain it. Those out of authority are ever struggling to
snatch it from the hands of those who hold it. While Man, the God in
swaddling-bands, is trampled under foot and hoof
and
left on the field of battle unnoticed, unattended and unsolved. So furious is
the fight, and so blood crazed the fighters that none, alas, would stop to lift
the painted mask off the face of the spurious bride and expose her monstrous
ugliness to all.
Believe,
O monks, that no authority is worth the flutter of an eyelash, except the
authority of Holy Understanding which is priceless. For that no sacrifice is
great. Attain it once, and you
shall
hold it to the end of Time. And it shall charge your words with more power than
all the armies of the world can ever command; and it shall bless your deeds
with more beneficence than all the world authorities combined can ever dream of
bringing to the world.”
―
Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was
once called The Ark
“In
life, toughness and roughness go together.”
―
Oscar Auliq-Ice
“Seeing
the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.”
―
Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
“Fighting
is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any
fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.”
―
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“It's
always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they
talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye
only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with
it!”
―
Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
“Warriors
want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.”
―
Donna Lynn Hope
