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“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.” Stephen King, The Stand
“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Skinny guys, they never go limp. They fight until they're burger.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Lose your temper and you lose the fight, Reenie used to say.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“The people should fight for their law as for their city wall.” Heraclitus, On Nature
“It was important . . . to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.” Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
“There lives a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease, Joe silently bore the stings. And then fought like a gladiator in the ring.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.” George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer
“The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It’s the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect—but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“Hence in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens.” Aristotle, Politics
“God's will! My liege, would you and I alone, without more help, could fight this royal battle!” William Shakespeare, Henry V
“What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner ‘I stand for consensus’?” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.” Sophocles, Antigone
“A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart” Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right” Bob Marley, Get Up, Stand Up
“I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“It was his first sharp experience with the rule that without money you cannot fight money.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“I’ll fight it. I’ll fight it for you. Don’t you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I’m okay. I’ll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“It is hard to fight against impulsive desire. Whatever it wants it will buy at the cost of the soul.” Heraclitus, On Nature
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any...” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail