Ann Brashares Quotes

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

We want to give them more than a choice between capitulation and strangulation.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

My people were divided about surrendering.

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it.

If a man can beat you, walk him.

I want peace and am willing to fight for it.

Americans loathe anything that reeks of appeasement.

Those nations who fight on and are defeated rise again. Those nations that surrender are finished.

When an army doesn't want to fight, you don't need much experience to win.

I generally had to give in.

There are some battles, no matter how much you don’t want to fight them, that you just have to fight. That are worth giving your life for.

Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

I swear to God, I will see [the Palestinian state], whether as a martyr or alive. Please, God, give me the honor of becoming a martyr in the fight for Jerusalem.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

General, unless he offers us honorable terms, come back and let us fight it out!

Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.

Those who fled will fight another time.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.

Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.

She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison.