#fights

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. ↗

— George Meredith

#country #deeper #fights #freedom #man

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#burned #fights #flower #honest #i

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bears #black #could #does #effective

People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#i #learnt #more #now #people

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. ↗

— Tacitus

#another #another day #away #battle #day

Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped. ↗

— James J. Corbett

#fights #man #more #never #remembering

Where is your false, your treacherous, and cursed wife?" "She's gone forrard to the Police Office," returns Mr Bucket. "You'll see her there, my dear." "I would like to kiss her!" exclaims Mademoiselle Hortense, panting tigress-like. "You'd bite her, I suspect," says Mr Bucket. "I would!" making her eyes very large. "I would love to tear her, limb from limb." "Bless you, darling," says Mr Bucket, with the greatest composure; "I'm fully prepared to hear that. Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another, when you do differ. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#sarcasm #women #love

It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks. ↗

— James Jones

#movies #violence #movies

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#bore #care #fights #hundred #lest

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#fights #lawyers #people #win