Molly Ivins Quotes

A fight is usually longer than five seconds.

If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night.

A fight is a fight. You can have any style.

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

It's been so long since I was in a real fight.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

I don't really like fighting.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

If he wants to fight, we can fight. I don't have any problem with him, but we can do it if he wants to.

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

Nothing compares to being in a room full of politicians screaming abuse at each other all night. It's hilarious but also a bit terrifying.

There are some people that just attract violence to them. No matter where they go, they'll find a fight.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

I'm attracted to fights.

Let them fight it out, friend! Things have gone too far.

In the face of war, politics are adjourned.

'Tis no festival unless there be some fightings.

I don't believe in ideal places for a fight.

I like big fights.

I just want to fight. That's all I want.

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

Oh yes, we're going to brawl, baby. Over you. Again.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

I'm thinking, 'OK, we're about to fight.' I'm like, 'We're about to get it on right here at the VMAs?

I mean when was the last time we had one of these contract signings... that didn't end... in some sort of horrible physical calamity? So if you wanna cut to the chase, you know, we can flip the table over, we can all start beating each other up or we can at least make this entertaining.