I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform.
I like automatic weapons. I fought for my right to use them in Vietnam.
Evil must always be fought.
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat. , Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit. ]
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.
Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.
I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
If I haven't fought for my country at least I'll paint for her.
It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq had no documented role in the Sept. 11 attacks. It is said that we fought from a moral objection to tyranny - except that we don't seem all that troubled by tyrants in nations that lack huge oil reserves. Everything is said except the truth: that we rushed into an unnecessary war on a half-baked mission. And that the repercussions of our hubris will shadow us for years.
I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.
Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.
A political war can be fought from anywhere.
If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?