Top 1200 Fight Club Novel Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself.

My first fight was incredible; it was surreal. I almost forgot I had to fight, I was so overcome with emotion. It was just an amazing experience.

It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you.

Terrorism and the fight against extremism is our fight.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

There's not one club in Europe with an anthem like You'll Never Walk Alone. There's not one club in the world so united with their fans. I sat there watching the Liverpool fans and they sent shivers down my spine. A mass of 40,000 people became one force behind their team. That's something not many teams have. For that I admire Liverpool more than anything.

To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.

I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.

We have to fight all terrorist groups, and not arm one to fight another.

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

And that's what I fight for, I fight for the fans, and of course I want that title.

I've challenged Cain Velasquez to a fight three times. He's a little boy who doesn't want to fight. He said no, live on TV.

I want to fight guys I'm excited to watch fight.

A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

Every fight is a food fight when youre a cannibal.

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

My second pro fight was at Madison Square Garden, on the undercard of Naseem Hamed's fight against Kevin Kelley.

The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

One of the best ways to fight poverty and to fight terrorism is to educate girls and bring women into the formal labor force.

At my first amateur fight, I was seven years old. My dad took me to go fight San Diego.

I asked for a tough fight, and I'm very excited to fight such a good fighter and a former champion like Frankie Edgar.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

I'm not scared of any opponent. I fight who I want to fight.

All these feelings that you get before you fight or when you're fighting or training for a fight, it makes me feel alive, and I love that feeling.

As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end.

Mayweather likes to say he is better than Sugar Ray Robinson, but I think it is more important for him to keep the zero on his record than it is to fight Manny. We hope the opportunity comes for a fight with Mayweather, but Manny is going to continue to fight, even if it means moving up in weight to go after nine titles.

It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.

Half the reason I fight the way I fight is because of where I get my mind, and I'm very protective of the things that matter to me.

You win the fight in the training camp, not on the day of the fight.

Any punch can end a fight, so there's no easy fight.

When I was playing in a junior tournament one time, I missed a short putt and threw my putter into the trees. I went on to win the tournament and later, instead of my dad congratulating me, he told me that if I ever threw a club again, I'd never play in another golf tournament. I haven't thrown a club since.

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

I want to secure my name. I'll fight who I have to fight for the belt.

He who has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time.

I don't fight to win or lose. I fight to entertain people.

I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds

This thing where Daniel Cormier wants to fight Brock Lesnar; I know he wants to make money, but it doesn't make any sense. The only one who wants to see that fight or make that fight is him. Nobody else wants to see that.

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable

Donaire is a very good champion. We both have speed and power. The difference is intelligence. I was born to fight. The bigger the fight the better. If Donaire isn't right, he's going to get knocked out. Maybe five rounds, maybe less. Not sure yet. But you know what? Donaire stepped up and took this fight. He didn't have to. For that, I respect him for getting in the ring with me.

Even when you spar for real and fight with full contact in training, you get hurt or you hurt someone and you see them trying to fight back. I want to inject as much reality as possible into fight scenes, even if some of the moves are slightly larger than life, if the emotion is there you'll then still be able to buy it. I recall seeing some films where people perform an acrobatic flip mid-fight and land with graceful precision and it's almost like watching Zorro... it's almost whimsical but you're no longer engaged.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

Every fight is a learning fight, there is a lot to improve on.

I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

I love to fight, but it's not just about the fight. You have to be healthy.

2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.

I come to fight because I love to fight. It's my life.

We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.

I live a fight life, I can do what I want to win a fight.

I often felt myself the lone voice in discussions suggesting that basic democratic principles be followed. I recommended that not only should workers' voices be heard, but they should actually have a seat at the table. You have the old boys' club discussing how the old boys' club should be reformed.

Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots Shor's - his preferred drink was waiting when he walked through the door. Reporters waited at his locker for monosyllabic bons mots. Boys clustered by the players' gate, hoping to touch him.

I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was another novel to write that I was going to write another.

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'

I love big events. It reminds me of the old days, when I knew everyone on the fight card, and it wasn't just one fight.

If you want to fight the best, you come fight Blessed.