#fighting

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#burning #cold #cold war #communism #deadly

My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#bang #business #club #defenders #every

It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure kids that get out there and fight. It's the insecure kids. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#bullies #fight #fighting #get #insecure

Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#bleeding #clean #cut #fighting #front

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.' ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#army #asked #bidding #cheney #competitive

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career. ↗

— Barack Obama

#acorn #alongside #been #care #career

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. ↗

— Ben Okri

#beauty #fighting #get #i #i am

We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty. ↗

— Peter Pace

#armed forces #deserve #does #fighting #forces

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. ↗

— Leonard Peltier

#fighting #freedom #her #his #imprisoned