The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
. . . painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.
May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.
Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.
They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to carry it away. What we needed was someone who bled. . . mother's big enough, wide enough for us to hide in. . . mother's who would breathe for us when we could not breathe anymore, who would fight for us, who would kill for us, die for us.
You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.
It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him
I like the debate, but I don't really like the fight. I don't like being in the ring. I'm not competitive.
That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.
All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.
I would love to play a role that is a lead role that people appreciate and a lot of people get to see. I just don't want to have to fight for every role anymore.
You have to fight for respect. In life, even cashiers at the supermarket, if they're women, they're differently treated. It's a reality. The reality is not nice; it's not pretty.
The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day.
I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer to this year’s Tripartite Elections. I know I am fighting against people who are smarter, wealthier and advanced.
Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!
We’ve learned that it will take more than one generation to bring about change. The fight for civil rights has developed into a broader concern for human rights, and that encompasses a great many people and countries. Those of us who live in a democracy have a responsibility to be the voice for those whose voices are stilled.
The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines.
In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.