4,593 Quotes About Fighting


  • Author Alexander Alekhine
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    I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.

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  • Author Alexis Arguello
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    Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

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  • Author Alfred Adler
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    Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

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  • Author Alexandra Adornetto
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    Some people really need to be taught some manners," he said disdainfully. I stared up at him. "Would you really have gotten in a fight for me?" "Of course." He didn't hesitate. "But there were four of them." "Beth, I'd take on Megatron's army to protect you." "Who?

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  • Author Ama Ata Aidoo
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    For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

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  • Author Ami Ayalon
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    The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.

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  • Author Ann Aguirre
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    There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.

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  • Author Ann Aguirre
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    We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.

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