Ningue¤  m no cais tem um nome so¤  .Todos te"  m tambe¤  m um apelido ou abreviam o nome, ou o aumentam, ou lhe acrescentam qualquer coisa que recorde uma histo¤  ria, uma luta, um amor. No one onthe dockshasjust onename.Everybody has a nickname too, or the name is shortened, or lengthened, or something is added that recalls a tale, a fight, a woman.

-Amado,Jorge
  Mar morto (Sea of Death,1984),'Iemanja¤ ' .

I know one thing we did right Was the day we started to fight, Keep your eye on the prize, Hold on, hold on!

-Anonymous
Civil rights song, quoted in  Juan Williams Eye on the Prize (1987).

Our cock won't fight.

-Baron
  Of Edward VIII. Comment to Winston Churchill during the abdication crisis. Quoted in Francis Donaldson Edward VIII (1974).

Fight the good fight of faith.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Timothy 6:12.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Timothy 4:7.

I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land.

-Blake,William
  Milton, preface. Stanza 4.

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

-Borges,Jorge Luis
  In Time,14 Feb.

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Bishop Blougram's  Apology'.

For, those that fly, may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.

-Butler, Samuel
  Hudibras, pt.3, canto 3, l.243^4.

   The Fight for our National Intelligence.

-Cattell, Raymond B(ernard)
  Title of book.

Ulster will not be a consenting party.Ulster, attheproper time, will resort to the supreme arbitrament of force; Ulster will fight and Ulster will be right.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Public letter,7 May.

We shall not flag or fail.We shall go on to the end.We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be.We shall fight on the beaches, weshall fight onthelanding grounds, weshall fight inthe fields and in thestreets, we shall fight inthehills.We shall never surrender.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech in the House of Commons,4  Jun, after the Dunkirk evacuation.

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

-Clough, Arthur Hugh
  Amours de Voyage, canto 5, pt.6.

To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseöit is so easy to have any of them in Indiaönever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforeöthat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.

-Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel
  Farewell speech on departing from Bombay as Viceroy of India.

To fight aloud, is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1859  Complete Poems, no.126 (first published1890).

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

Some of us will fight and fight again to save the party we love.We will fight and fight againtobring back sanityand honestyand dignity, so that our party, with its great past, may retain its glory and its greatness.

-Gaitskell, Hugh
  Denouncing unilateralists trying to gain control of the party. Labour Party conference speech, Oct.

When we began this fight, we had clean handsöare they clean now? What's gentility worth if it can't stand fire?

-Galsworthy,John
  The Skin Game, act 3.

Why are you telling me this? The British won't fight.

-Galtieri, Leopoldo Fortunato
  Responding to a warning from US Secretary of State Alexander Haig about the consequence of the invasion.

One cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

-Gladstone,W(illiam) E(wart)
  Speech on the Reform Bill, House of Commons, 27  Apr.