- Nov 07, 2020
Fight Quotes
Historical words on standing your ground.
This collection of fight quotes includes historical rhetoric about fighting for a united Europe and the case against tolerating imperialism at home while opposing it abroad. Several reflect mid-20th-century debates about liberty that still read as pointed today. Related content appears in our Fighter quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. Fast forward 65 years and it seems the last New Labour government grew an Unfair State that fuelled - not fought - one of those evils: idleness.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a walkawayer. If someone brings me a really crap meal in a restaurant I will tell them it's wonderful and then just never go to the restaurant again. I think that's the best way to do it generally, rather than sit and fight and annoy your head. Just pretend to enjoy it and then leave.
- Health Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I played 'Survivor', I sat back many times and marveled that no one had gotten into a real physical altercation. With all the backbiting, lies, and lack of food, a fight didn't sound far off base, considering the strained and fragile emotions.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020