Quotes of Fighting - somelinesforyou

“ We have to keep fighting. ”

- David Ortiz

“ To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ”

- Sun tzu

“ An unjust peace is better than a just war. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ”

- Fred Woodworth

“ As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ Everyone here has been fighting for a while. We've been playing well for a couple of months. Hopefully we'll go out there tomorrow night and play good. ”

- Derek Jeter

“ Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ 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

“ Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you. ”

- Paul Wilkinson

“ All war is deception. ”

- Sun tzu

“ I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet. ”

- George Foreman

“ More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. ”

- William Tecumseh Sherman

“ Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ”

- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“ All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. ”

- Gerald R. Ford

“ That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground. ”

- Dorothy L. Sayers

“ When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil. ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ”

- Elia Kazan

“ Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ”

- Hermione Gingold

“ I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink. ”

- William Halsey

“ I don't think that boxing historians have been able to find a case in which a great fighter, or a fighter presumed to be a great fighter, came to such an ignominious end. ”

- Larry Merchant

“ Both Regiments or none. ”

- Samuel Adams

“ If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ”

- James Madison

“ War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ All history, of course, is the history of wars. ”

- Penelope Lively

“ Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. ”

- Abigail Van Buren

“ Jaw-jaw is better than war-war. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. ”

- Arthur Koestler
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