155 quotes found
“The thing about learning how to fight is that some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are for...”
“If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slav...”
“Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.”
“War happens when people are too stubborn or scared to listen to the other party and coming up with compromises, and when that happens, they decide that we must send out people to die, if they want ...”
“we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay.”
“Fighting is not a man thing, it's a human thing.”
“What sets you apart from everyone else is your ability to dig deep when youve got nothing left. When you are broken, lost, exhausted. When you want to pack it all in and call it a day. Thats when y...”
“Being a part of the world in a healthy, mindful, present sense means learning to have complete faith that things will work out. Living in this world means that instead of cowering away, or giving u...”
“I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living.”
“I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against ...”
“Fights begin and end with handshakes.”
“I have just lost my reason for fighting so hard. How do I go on now, without my thing to fight for?' And he whispered into my ear, he said: 'Maybe it's time to stop fighting.”
“What are we fighting for?. We bring nothing into the world, we will take nothing into the grave.”
“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make you...”
“Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, youd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that Ive been wrong. If you...”
“A key to life is knowing what to ignore and when to shut up. :)”
“No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the gauntlet.""Ohhhh," he said. "I thought you were speaking literally.""I do beg yo...”
“This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell,...”
“She knew very well that people fell out, even stormily, and then made up. But she did not know how to start - she simply did not have the trick of it, the row that cleared the air, and could never ...”
“There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited.”
