#fight

If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#believe #fight #fighting #fights #first

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off. ↗

— Burt Young

#i #off #taking #used #weight

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#death #fighting #old-age #war #youth

Numai moartea e o forță la fel de absolută, dar în lupta de veacuri dintre aceste două puteri, dragostea este cea care ia moartea de gât, îi pune genunchiul în piept, o bate ziua și noaptea, o învinge în fiecare primăvară, o urmărește pas cu pas și-n fiecare groapă pe care aceasta o sapă, dragostea aruncă sămânța unei vieți noi. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#fight #ideal #inspirational #love #death

Those who are skilled in combat do not become angry. The wise win before the fight and the ignorant fight to win. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#war #wisdom #age

BABARIC! ↗

— Robert Byrd

#barbaric #dog-fighting #old-people #robert-byrd #u-s-senate

I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#arguments #coming-home #daughters #family #fights

Use the fear; feed the anger. ↗

— Teri Terry

#feer #fight #warrior #anger

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee. ↗

— Chip Heath

#fear #fight #flee #anger

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#the-fight #writing #art