A Quote by Woodrow Wilson

A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.

Woodrow Wilson

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Fighting Only Operation Put Right Worth Worth Fighting For

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Woodrow Wilson
American - President
December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

Guillermo del Toro

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

Oscar Wilde

When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.

Clive Owen

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

Margaret Mitchell

One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.

Joseph Murray

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

Lilly Singh

Fighting for what you think is right is always worth it.

Barack Obama

Never stop believing that fighting for what is right is worth it.

Hillary Clinton

If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might save their lives. ... They have a 90 percent chance of surviving the operation — if you tell them that, they respond one way. If you tell them ... that they have a 10 percent chance of being killed by the operation, they are about three times less likely to have the operation.

Michael Lewis

I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

Mahatma Gandhi

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

Grover Cleveland

Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

Lauren Kate

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Clarence Darrow

Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.

Lilly Singh

Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking