Quotation Explorer - 'Against'

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close. - Henry J. Kaiser

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest. - Venus Williams

Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier,unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move. - V.S. Atbay

Turning back against your responsibilityas a father is the most spineless thing you can do. - Bradley B. Dalina

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant. - Charles Frazier

Nothing against the music, it's awesome... but going deeper and deeper in Super Genes... it's kind of dry... isn't it???So I need something bloody!- Crime is a great choice! - Deyth Banger

...while social analysis must always be part of curriculum development and teaching, education policy and practice needs to be protected against the dangers of fads, obsessions and moral panics. - Rob Gilbert and Pam Gilbert

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. - Madeleine L'Engle

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I'm enjoying two beautiful visions tonight. Watching you stand there against a marvelous background has to be the most intriguing sunset I have ever experienced. - K.S. Collier

When you fight with God, your warring against your pride. - Anthony Liccione

I'm sure I've had my phone tapped for years, I don't think it's a crime against humanity they just ought to quit doing it, god damn it. - Cornel West

We must fight for the freedom of religion; because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality. - M.F. Moonzajer

Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn) - John Phillips

Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don’t be upset when others decide you’re an asshole."[] Jim C. Hines - Blog post of July 26, 2011

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Like democracy, civilization has to be willed and practice. Otherwise, society is a war of all against all, powered by individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power.

Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear. - Ian McEwan

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's - Thomas L. Friedman

I always felt it wouldpass.I listened to the charges against meknowing some of them to be truebut certainly notimportant enoughto become the target ofviolence, envy,vengeance.I thought it would surelypass. - Charles Bukowski

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity. - Christopher Hitchens

Dignity is never silent. It has a voice, heart and soul. Truth and courage is its foundation. It will stand against the masses and speak the truth. Because every great person has always done what others found fear in doing. - Shannon L. Alder

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter. - Sir Winston Churchill

Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us. - Bill Moyers

If everyone is against you, but God is for you. It is more than enough to keep moving. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Have confidence. Like the first spark of morning light against the entire night sky recognize the Power and Brilliance within you. - Marrett Green

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded. - Ambrose Bierce

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense - Chris Rock

Never speak ill against someone else. You can't know what life holds for you. The ill you speak against someone else may find you sooner than you think. Speak blessings not curses. It's what I told my son. It's what I'm telling you. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. - Dale Carnegie

One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them. - Raheel Farooq

The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers! - Ashwin Sanghi

Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity – its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self. - Tobias Wolff

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Maddie: Now it’s just me against the world, and it’s the loneliest feeling ever. - Dixon, Ruby

Surround yourself with people who are positive and who guard against negative talk. - Alan E. Nelson

If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm. - Sathya Sai Baba

...since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might against death, without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence? - Albert Camus

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence. - Woodrow Wilson

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

I’ve often said a man’s character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall. So no matter how great the setback, how severe the failure, you never give up. - John Cena

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others - Michel de Montaigne

The truly noble heart sacrifices itself for others’ good, to defend the weak and the good against evil. To a heart like this, a heart devoted to chivalry, courage is a matter of form. - J. Aaron Gruben

Frankly, Pedro Almodóvar's recent box office hit, Volver, is the first movie I've seen in which a young woman's retaliation against sexual violence doesn't ultimately boomerang around to destroy her - Sarah Stillman

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow. - C.G. Jung

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall. - Cynthia Ozick

I cannot tell whether diamonds appeared in his eyes or mine as the shine of adoration became the icon one sees in history, a Byzantine sparkle, Medieval armor against all odds. - Alice Shapiro

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. - DaShanne Stokes

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction. - Novalis

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.from the book: stuff i think about - Sondra Faye

Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time. - Jules Feiffer

More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words? - Chuck Austen

All professions are conspiracies against the laity. - George Bernard Shaw

There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Always grow with changes and not against them. - Debasish Mridha

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. - H.L. Mencken

Clive was losing sensation in his feet, and as he stamped them the rhythm gave him back the ten note falling figure, ritardando, a cor anglais, and rising softly against it, contrapuntally, cellos in mirror image. Her face in it. The end. - Ian McEwan

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. - Thomas H. Huxley

The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season. - Gordon Atkinson

If you are humble you will never have to struggle against positive change. - Paul Bamikole

Indifference is one of the seven deadly sins, actually the greatestof them all, because it is the only one that sins against life. - Karl Ove Knausgård

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. - Anaïs Nin

Sometimes the very things that we’re expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very things that God let’s die so that we can live. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

No matter how against your conditions are, never divert yourself from your life goals. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide. - Paulo Coelho

I before E except after C. Weird?By rebelling against the rules the word itself denotes its very meaning: of strange or extraordinary character, odd, fantastic.I think all writers are weird. - Day Parker

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other. - Rick Riordan

Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one. - Robert Frost

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Evolutionary biology is imperialistic, overtaking entire fields of endeavor simply by attaching the prefix bio – or neuro -- to their names: bioethics, no comics, even, God help us, neurotheology. Its logic is deployed against helpless laymen as a bully's truncheon or an argument stopper. - Andrew Ferguson

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. - George Bernard Shaw

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded. - Sylvia Plath

Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place. - Joe Blow

...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. - Voltaire

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. - Leviticus 19 18 NIV

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values. - Cesare Pavese

Wondering what gives them confidence that they are not going to be caught of their drama or they don't care even if people understand their acting as they hold high position and none can do anything against them. - Anuj Somany

The odds are stacked against you until you realize: You make the odds. - Tehya Sky

If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God! - George Whitefield

I will follow anyoneAnd ask everyoneTo stand together as one nationAgainst the killing of innocent citizens - Widad Akreyi

I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me. - Tahereh Mafi

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. - Christina Hoff Sommers

The only way to overcome fear and doubt is to go against them. - M. Kirin

I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The body, I had been taught, wants only to live. Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of the body against itself but of the will against the body. Yet here I beheld a body that was going to die rather than change its nature. - J.M. Coetzee

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. - Galatians 5:22-23

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey

The Use of the Understanding, in endeavouring to find out the Meaning of any Proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature and Evidence for or against it, and in judging of it according to the seeming Force or Weakness of the Evidence. - Anthony Collins

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience. - Thomas Jefferson

Politics doesn’t mean playing deceitful and trickery games against the people, it means playing resourceful and organized games for the people. - Amit Kalantri

If you conform, you miss all of the adventures and stand against the progress of society. - Debasish Mridha

Not even the gods fight against necessity. - Simonides

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. - Calvin Coolidge

Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong; And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light. - Felicia Hermans

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand. - William Shakespeare

Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you! - Sarah Silverman

Talking about pollution, nobody's holy.They who pollute, sinned against nature. - Toba Beta

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water. - Roman Payne

Humor is just another defense against the universe. - Mel Brooks

How can you trust only yourself when your eyes can blind you, your ears deceive you, when you speak that which you don’t mean, and do that which you planned against? - Kyle Schmalenberg

Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is self-sacrifice. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. - John Milton

Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it. - Yosa Buson

It's awkward how some people refuse to be humans regarding their behaviours! Isn't that against God's will for he created them as humans? And yet, they at night hold hands up and ask God for forgiveness and to grant them their wishes; when he created animals sinless. - Mustafa SULTAN

If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are but one of many ideas against a greater imagination. - James C. Emlund

I could only defend myself so much. It was my word against his. There was no evidence, nor was there any proof. My word meant very little. - Brenda Perlin

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

There are no frontiers in this struggle to the death... A victory for any country against imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all.

We're all playing melody against each other. our aim is to get so far away from the original line that your playing something that's never been heard before.

It's a good thing I'm not the president, because I would prosecute everybody who was involved in that torture, I would prosecute the people who did it, I would prosecute the people who ordered it and they would all go to jail! Because Torture is against the law! - Jesse Ventura

When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind. - Criss Jami

To swim against waves is always an impossible task, but if you manage to do you will reach the shore where nobody even thought of. - Dr. Karan M Pai - Dr Karan M Pai

ALL EXCUSES must be FOUGHT by taking ACTION against the THOUGHT. ~ Author - Mammy Oaklee

Miranda Writes: Anything you say or do may be used for or against you within a story by a writer - Jazz Feylynn

Pride, willfulness, and rebellion against what is written are the causes of the Bible being hard to understand. The hard part, then, is not understanding with the mind, but being willing to obey what he does not want to obey. If a person could not understand the truth, he could not reject it. - Finis Jennings Dake

OFFENSIVE, adj. Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its enemy. "Were the enemy's tactics offensive?" the king asked. "I should say so!" replied the unsuccessful general. "The blackguard wouldn't come out of his works!" - Ambrose Bierce

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy. - Friedrich Nietzsche

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. - Shirley Chisholm

Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. :( - Joel Osteen

When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others. - Ellen J. Barrier

The legal system is blatantly rigged against the common people. - Steven Magee

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself? - Jesse Ventura

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence. - Bertrand Russell

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. (Lesson of trust)

Justice has a right to protest against injustice. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

People think that those who commit suicide are against life—they are not. They are too lusty for life, they have great lust for life; and because life is not fulfilling their lust, in anger, in despair, they destroy themselves. - Osho

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. - Simone Weil

People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.Clouds which move across gray skiespast churcheswith towers darkened in the dusk.One who leans against granite railinggazing into the evening waters,His hands resting on old stones. - Franz Kafka

But you have to realize that it doesn't matter how your films are going to stack up against other people's. You have to stop whining about it and just get to work. Just do it. Because in the work is your existence. That's what you're here for.

I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. - Abraham Lincoln

I go with the flow but I write against it. - Tamara Jasmine Burrell

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. - Friedrich Nietzsche

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office. - Molly Ivins

He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus

That was some branch. Did it have a vendetta against your t-shirt?Guess so.I hope you showed it who is boss.Yeah, I peed on it. - Stacey Marie Brown

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh. - David Nicholls

Rise against every negative thought that rises against you. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense. - William Shakespeare

That time of year thou may'st in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,- Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. - William Shakespeare

While we are floating against the current toward the future, our minds stay behind with the anchoring memories of the past. - Debasish Mridha

An act against my will is not my act. - Unknown

She dreamed of autumn. Of chilly autumn winds and soft fall rains. She could even feel the cool moisture as the rain drops touched her face and ran down her cheeks. Her denim skirt and work boots felt heavy as the rain in her dreams splashed cold water against them - Grace Willows

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair…Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life. - Ursula K. Le Guin

If Waterboarding is okay, then why don't we let our police do it to criminals so they can find out what they know? Because it's against the law. If we're not going to be a country that stand's for the rule of law, when it's convenient or inconvenient, then what DO we stand for. - Jesse Ventura

A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured. - Andrew Coyne

Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them. - Brett

Setbacks are common enemies of both achievers and people whose dream cut short. The difference is that the former persist against continual setbacks while the latter quit. - Assegid Habtewold

Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity. - Marty Rubin

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit. - Richard Pryor

It is very good, Wisehammer, it's very well written, but it's too-too-political. It will be considered provocative.""You don't want me to say it.""Not tonight. We have many people against us.""I could tone it down. I could omit 'We left our country for our country's good.'""That's the best line. - Timberlake Wertenbaker

When fate connects an invisible thread between a man and a woman who are bound to be together, no matter how hard they try to fight against their own destiny, they can’t change what’s meant to be. - Nino Varsimashvili

the mostbeautiful tideis the sweepof your heartagainst mine. - Sanober Khan

I’m just being me… Success is more than just a wish or desire; it’s a behavior. A byproduct of living this way is that I consistently draw the envy of haters while also disappointing those who have bet against me. But that’s just me… Unapologetically driven. - Steve Maraboli

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. - Ross Macdonald

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it. - Carl Sagan

Holding a grudge hurts the one holding it more than the one it's held against... All that wasted time and energy... Let it go." L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury - L.R.W. Lee

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. - Nikola Tesla

Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination. - Debasish Mridha

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. - Noam Chomsky

Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don’t measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop myself from straying off the path. - Stella Payton

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. - J. Sidlow Baxter

Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect - moving us to the experience to which the words point. - Billy Marshall Stoneking

You can try to defend discrimination on grounds that people are acting according to their conscience, but never forget that those same people may find it conscionable to discriminate against you next. - DaShanne Stokes

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall. - Adolf Hitler

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.

We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.-- Interview for KJTV-1990 - Zeena Schreck

When someone speaks against a person its gossip; until the person isn't heard it's still a hearsay. - Joey Lawsin

Acknowledging and being concious that you are being angry is a battle half won against anger. - ketan r shah

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. - Ann Radcliffe

Life has a vendetta against writers. It does everything in it's power to get in the way of our craft. Maybe it thinks we embellish too much? - Hannah Harding

Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words - Rise Against

Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) - Jeanette Winterson

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. - James M. Barrie

It is difficult to live with people because it is so difficult to be silent. And not against him who is repugnant to us are we most unfair, but against him who is no concern of ours. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Absurd laughter is a kind of protest against an absurd existence. - Meng Wang

Societies where there are worthy men and women of God, not necessarily preachers or religious men, but men that know the ways of God, they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land - Sunday Adelaja

They sat and he drew her into him. Their lips met, sparking an internal firework display. His soft exquisite lips pressed gently against hers. His kiss held the exact right balance between tenderness and a kind of passionate urgency. - Amanda Turner

Those who fight against God's people are fighting against God, and fighters against God will not prevail. - Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it. - Harry Houdini

No evil being was ever wise: they are all against every wise man's critics. - A Gentlemen

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. - American Proverb

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids. - Tracy Chevalier

Incorporate daily programs on positive thinking as a counterbalance against the negativity you may encounter in pursuit of your dreams. - Ken Poirot

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you. - Kurdish Proverb

Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say having double meaning.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. - Jane Smiley

More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world. - John Christopher

If you see oppression, violence, injustice and evil deeds, unzip your silence and uncaring indifference, do something and act against all these unethical instances." ~ , an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You - Angelica Hopes

Culture, like science, is no protection against demons. - G.K. Chesterton

Humor is just another defense against theuniverse. - Mel Brooks

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") - Yevgeny Zamyatin

remember when God has answered you, it no longer matters who has been against you but for Him to answer you and change your story, you have to make up your mind to disobey the wrong order, change the status quo and BE DIFFERENT! - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

One would see the multitude oppressed inside society as a consequence of the very precautions taken against threats from outside, one would see oppression increase continually without the oppressed ever being able to know where it would end, nor what legitimate means remained for them to halt it.

fight for what you believe in,for if you don't you will be forever fighting against yourself. - Keisha Keenleyside

Strength we think to be a virtue in government, but we do not find our defense against disintegration either in arbitrary or in very great power. Indeed, we are inclined to see in both these the symptoms of an already advanced decay - Michael Oakeshott

It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart - Collen Hoover

Democracy works. Against us.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

ការរស់នៅក្នុងភាពអាត្មានិយមគឺជាការរស់នៅបញ្ច្រាសនឹងច្បាប់ធម្មជាតិ។It is against law of nature to live a selfish life - Khem Veasna ខឹម វាសនា

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big. — (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year) - Pete Seeger

I won't compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key to open a door, I should not misuse that key! - Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me. - Zora Neale Hurston

Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions. - Oscar Bimpong

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Karl Feyerabend

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us? - Pam Brown

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true. - Walt Disney

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing! - John Wesley

She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hardbeneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want andwine. . . . - Patrick Rothfuss

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. - Robert Orben

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. - Bible

Opposition stood in my way, but I persevered against all odds and in the process gained my freedom as well as became a man whose future is like the universe/cosmos...INFINITE - Pierre Richard Lauture

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1. - Ernest Rutherford

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully. - Abraham Lincoln

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. - Marcus Claudius Tacitus

The pursuit of the crucified crown follows the performance of the crucified King such that both performances go against the power structures of the world that think victory and power come only through aggressive and violent means. - Matt Farlow

Peace and happiness are powerful weapons against the Egos. - Belsebuub

Darkness is a natural fear, one that takes the things you love most, the most valuable innocence, and turns them against you. The struggle is to see past the illusions, and see the light in your fear. - Various

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bull shit. - Richard Pryor

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself. - David Brooks

Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie,Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie,Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour n’a point de loiTranslated: Breath against breath warms my life.A thousand kisses give me I pray thee.Love says it all without number,love knows no law. - Pierre de Ronsard

Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Alli Condie

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. - Stanislaw J. Lec

The truth is helpless when up against perception - Zack W. Van

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart. - Hermann Hesse

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become. - Veronica Roth

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it. - Mitch Hedberg

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious. - John Cleese

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made. - Edith Wharton

If there is a very strong love behind you that you can lean against to it, nothing can ever shake you very strongly! - Mehmet Murat ildan

MADDIE: I know what it’s like to be ignored. I know what it’s like to feel like everyone in the world is against you. I know what it feels like to be on the outside and wanting desperately to be accepted. - Dixon, Ruby

Facing the world full of confidence is sometimes out of your league particularly if you have come up against or been compromised by adversity in some form. - Auliq Ice

It is entirely possible to win against the enemy, it is possible, even, to kill the enemy... and still be defeated by the battle.

Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups. - Bastiat, Frederick

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy. - Friedrich Nietzsche

If religion is against homosexuality, then it is against the will and happiness of people. - M.F. Moonzajer

Kylie flopped back against the seat again, enjoying the look of disbelief on the vampire’s face a littletoo much. Would you like a name of a good doctor who will schedule your little snip-snip operation?she bit out. - C.C. Hunter

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery. - Dejan Stojanovic

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. - Dorothy Parker

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. - Jeremy Taylor

The Word of God is our measuring stick against all deception. - Brian Reynolds

You know you are starting to love her when you are starting to go against your principles. - Rhodrigo Tesoro

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

it's all right", he said in a clear voice as if explaining something to a child. "It's quite all right. She's having a rest. We'll be going soon. There's no hurry. You see -" Bond's head sank down against hers and he whispered into her hair - "you see, we've got all the time in the world". - Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Words like IDIOT & MAD are forever sacrosanct as history shows that they have always been used against sages & saints by stupids and sycophants in this satanic & selfish world. - Anuj Somany

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him. - Steven Erikson

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

When the world seems against you then your own confident and willpower will lead you till you reach your goal.. - Mradul Srivastava

What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. - Jalaluddin Rumi

He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind. - Arthur Urbane Dilley

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! - Golda Meir

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. - Walt Whitman

It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye. - Kristin Cashore

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. - Arthur C. Clarke

Everyone tells us to be one in a million... What they don't tell us is that being one in a million also means being one against a million. - Saahil Prem

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world. - Nicolás Gómez Dávila

It is enough if God approves of me and all are against me. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people.

The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one. - C.S. Lewis

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you. - Herbert Beerbohm Tree

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us. - Thomas Aquinas

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. - George Orwell

Guard your heart against anger. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no greater crime than a crime against humanity. There is no greater crime against humanity than usury. The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY. - Compton Gage

Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society. - Debasish Mridha

Anything you say can and will be used against you, so only say my name. - Fall Out Boy

In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished. - Emily Thorne

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. - Colette

Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. (Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens) - Friedrich von Schiller

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality. - Ralph Ellison

Let’s stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and unity to our communities. - Widad Akreyi

Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state. - Will Durant

A study can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. - Victor Hugo

When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you. - Sunday Adelaja

Rise above storms.Sail against tides.Succeed against the odds. - Matshona Dhliwayo

When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity. - A.D. Posey

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act. - Kenneth Rexroth

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. - Isaac Asimov

People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain. - Masashi Kishimoto

The touch of your fingersgrazing minedelicate asa single drop of winein a crystal goblet.Rolling it round,I savor it on my tongue,try tomake it lastforever.The words Iloveyouform in the airand melt. Your palm againstmy cheek,light asa snowflake. - Eve Merriam

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless. - E.A. Bucchianeri

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. - John Stuart Mill

People try to use your past against you not realizing you were using it to propel you. - Kierra C.T. Banks

Her belly ruptures full of parasites, Her eyes sink back in her skull Her butchered wrists, dangle From the edge of the bathtubHer children cuddle against her Desperate for love she cannot give - Wrath James White

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. - Friedrich von Schiller

Doubt births negative confessions; it hinders God’s promises and it spurs thedevil into action! Don’t give the devil any propelling force against your life!God is able in all situations; only when you believe! - Ayobola Olusegun-Emmanuel

Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose. - Israelmore Ayivor

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego. - Hamza Yusuf

I cannot bring myself to judge those who are defending their lands against an immoral violent foreign invader. The fact that the immoral violent foreign invader happens to be the U.S. government does not alter my view. - Dave Champion

Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious; holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. - John Milton

Religion does not belong to God; it belongs to the human reaction against mortality! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. - Theodore Roosevelt

Sometimes we fight who we are, struggling against ourselves and our natures. But we must learn to accept who we are and appreciate who we become. We must love ourselves for what and who we are, and believe in our talents. - Harley King

Do you keep silent to keep a friendship or do you try to lend your support unconditionally, even if what they are doing goes against everything you believe in? Will it be principles over friendship, morality over love? - Donna Lynn Hope

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace! - Widad Akreyi

Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' - Margaret Cho

To be or not to be, that is the question: to go on living, fighting against this sea of troubles, or to die and end everything? Why be afraid of death? To die is to sleep, no more. Perhaps to dream? Yes, that's the problem: in that sleep of death, what dreams will come? - Isaac Marion

I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant. - Anthony Liccione

When it looks like everyone is against you, look inside for the truth. - Sumner Davenport

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor. - Thomas Jefferson

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility. - Hermann Hesse

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. - Milan Kundera

The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace! - Mehmet Murat ildan

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against real life. But I think there are signs that strange things happen, though they do not emerge - Ivy Compton-Burnett

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled. - Scott Westerfeld

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government. - Martin Luther King Jr.

According to an original reading of the Constitution and Declaration, the intrusiveness that is an inevitable part of big government is an offense against its people. - A.E. Samaan

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children - Howard Zinn

I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual, gentle, and kind we wind up with another set of stereotypes. - Justine Larbalestier

I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind. - Dick Gregory

A Christian who rebels against God’s Word is not a Christian at all - Fritz Chery

A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy. - Shaun Hick

Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles. - Anthony Liccione

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. - Albert Einstein

Marx hated weakness in men, and considered the making of moral judgements as the last resort of the weak. To say 'That is morally wrong' is implicitly to say ' I am powerless to stop that, so I will inveigh against it'. - Paul Robert Wolff

All the good things a man can do for a woman is against her religion - M.F. Moonzajer

Ego is the most important aspect of our life in the sense if we use it against the spaces between our hearts. - Mohsin Ali Shaukat

I choose not to fight against but to stand for. Not to go against but to go for. - O. Stephen Peart

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. - Emil Cioran

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution. - William Shakespeare

When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift

I turned to the window. A single raindrop fell against it, and seeing my reflection in the glass, I suddenly knew why Finn’s eyes were familiar.They were exactly like mine. - Pamela Nicole

This was the book I read over and over. I really felt so in tune with them- I knew all the dates of their lives, what they had been doing, whre they had been. They were always my heroes, creating something fantastic against all odds, and against their real life. - Christian Tetzlaff

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. - John Steinbeck

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Religion is a defense against the experience of God. - Carl Jung

The man up there raged aloud in two languages, and with a sincerity in his fury that almost convinced me I had, in some way, sinned against the harmony of the universe - Joseph Conrad

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. - John Marshall

If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions! - Mehmet Murat ildan

There’s something so great about this, she whispers. About what? I whisper back.About this, she whispers. About being outlaws. It’s just you and me—against the world. - Sonya Sones

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity. - Erik Christian Haugaard

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen. - Martin Luther

Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. - Paul Celan

Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character - Hiyamedia

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till out political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich, - a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. - Stephen Johnson Field

Nature already uses the language of mathematics, so why not work with the environment instead of against it. We need to start mimicking the mathematical logic that occurs in the landscape, identify existing systems, and out of those concepts create new ones. - Yafreisy Carrero

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

NONSENSE, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary. - Ambrose Bierce

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World. - Patrick Nowell-Smith

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time. - Abraham Lincoln

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas

t takes great courage to stand up against your fixed, false beliefs. - Debasish Mridha

...beauty is a spark which flares up when two ages meet across the distance of time,...beauty is a clean sweep of chronology, a rebellion against time. - Milan Kundera

The vision may be the destination but the journey began with a past which will stay connected whatever the sages may say against it - there is always a hyperlink. - Amit Abraham

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. - Gore Vidal

NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ - Stephen Colbert

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

I'm against group sex because I wouldn't know where to put my elbows.

Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Jesus didn't fight against what was wrong. But he fought for what was right. - Ricky Maye

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight. - Margaret Thatcher

The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire and sword. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The proud cannot accept the authority of God giving direction to their lives. (See Helaman 12:6.) They pit their perceptions of truth against God’s great knowledge, their abilities versus God’s priesthood power, and their accomplishments against His mighty works. - Ezra Taft Benson

The only thing sillier than believing in gods is arguing against their existence. - Marty Rubin

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer. - Joss Whedon

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. - J. K. Rowling

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future. - M. Scott Peck

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall. - James Patterson

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.I’m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination. - Fernando Pessoa

In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers. - Col. Thomas Aspinwall

Abortion is not allowedbecause apparently it is against the law of god.Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deitywho ordered babies to be slaughtered,killed all the first-born in EgyptAnd caused an entire human race to drown.From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"(Scourges of an imaginary god) - A.J. Beirens

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. - George Eliot

Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there..." Closing his eyes, he then slumps against the wall, as if the words he has spoken has used up all his energy. - Robert Cormier

These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.These were the friends who gave me my life. - R.A. Salvatore

When a society begins to lack men that, that they stand up against the collapse of equity in their land that is the kind of thing that brings sorrow to the heart of our King - Sunday Adelaja

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality - Robert W. Firestone

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy! - Friedrich Nietzsche

After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego. - Garey Gordon

Spiders will build their webs no matter how many laws you pass against it. - Marty Rubin

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. - Harold Rosenberg

A woman is so selfish that in order to safeguard her vested-interest and secure high position, she may even poison with words the minds of her children against her own man or anyone as close one. - Anuj Somany

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other. - Thomas Carlyle

We have spoken out against inhuman slaughters perpetrated by the Nazis and the Communists. But will we speak out also against the inhuman slaughter in Indonesia, where over 100,000 alleged Communists have been not perpetrators, but victims? - Robert F. Kennedy

Peace is not a result inside us from everything around us. Peace is not submissive nor passive. On the contrary, peace is an overwhelming force which comes from within us, disrespectful of everything around us, a firm coalition of spirit and soul standing against all the unrest that abounds. - C. JoyBell C.

You will know him by the blade he carries and the Dark-born skill with which he wields it, for none who know the love of the Father may defeat the Darkblade, yet all must stand against him. - Anthony Ryan

On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have a chance to save lives! If we don't take it, we may regret it! - Widad Akreyi

Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul."At last," he murmured. "A way to shut you up." Christovao Santos (Chris), Sanctuary - Sharon K. Garner

I said once that lies have no rights against truth. I was wrong. In daily life, it's the truth that's disenfranchised. What fits the popular narrative, what makes an observer happy with the consistency of events, is what is believed. - Adrian Lamo

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. - Martin Luther

When you cry out against a God who punishes people in a place like hell, you cry out against the God who has revealed Himself in the pages of Scripture. You cry out against His goodness, holiness, and justice; and all the while you minimize your own sinfulness or the sinfulness of others. - Tim Challies

Step outside for a while - calm your mind. It is better to hug a tree than to bang your head against a wall continually - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Who lies for you will lie against you. - Bosnian Proverb

Do not fixate on the odds against you but on victory ahead of you. - Matshona Dhliwayo

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal. - Tennessee Williams

I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another. - Thomas Jefferson

Romans, never forget that government is your medium! Be this your art:-to practice men in habit of peace, generosity to the conquered, and firmness against aggressors. - Virgil

The world may be against us, but this love we have is enough to put this world beneath us. - Jayson Engay

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness". - Alain de Botton

love is your greatest weapon against your enemies. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The odds are stacked against us until we realize: We make the odds. - Tehya Sky

Biblical Christianity doesn't fit the world's vision of global solidarity right now as there is a battle against Truth and the world hates that. - Auliq Ice

If power is the only important thing, then Frodo loses against Sauron. Hell, if power’s the only important thing then Gandalf loses against Sauron. If magic is the deciding factor of a fight, then four plucky kids from England get their asses turned to stone by the White Which. - Patrick Rothfuss

God has given you all you need to fight against the enemy. - Jim George

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large skeletons without fur. With just one sign, I thought I was able to make them rise up outside their refuges... - Roger Vitrac

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. - Sigmund Freud

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. - Edith Wharton

We now have the liberal playbook and we know what they are doing, and we are using it against them. Unlike the Democrats though, we aren't out to destroy our society, we are out to save it. - Mark R. Levin

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx

in the endit is wordspoetry. sunsetssomeone’s deep blue silk voice.mountain scents.someone’s smile.eyes. that we haveno defenses against. - Sanober Khan

Prayer is in essence rebellion—rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God. - David G. Wells

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift

The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice. - Marty Rubin

To steel yourself against mangoes showed a degree of iciness that was almost inhuman. - Vikram Seth

I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans. - Amelia Boynton Robinson

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted. - Dada Bhagwan

When its back's against the wall, even positivity will come out fighting! - Serina Hartwell

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. - C.S. Lewis

People are talking high of Thiruvalluvar. But in practice they do not respect his teachings. They act against him and disregard him. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

If you're unloved then find out and destroy all the barriers that you have created against love. - Debasish Mridha

There is nothing displays the quickness of genius more than a dispute - as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's lustre. But perhaps the odds are against the man of taste in this particular.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid. - Penn Jillette

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not be sad that all odds are against you; be happy that your real purpose is by you - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. - Ayn Rand

It's like this," Nana says. "All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green. - Tess Callahan

if the conditions and or circumstances are right anybody will turn against anyone... - Methen

If peaceful protesting really worked, the need to peacefully protest would have subsided to almost zero a long time ago! Instead, the thing that has subsided to almost zero are the number of complaints filed against police officers that are actually upheld. - Steven Magee

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against. - Thomas Brooks

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference. - Ambrose Bierce

was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it—against reason—as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience… Erwin Schrödinger - Plato

I remembered a definition of chivalry I'd heard once: a man protecting a woman against every man but himself. - James Anderson

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! - Patrick Rothfuss

God allows us to have a personal relationship with himself and he forgives and loves us as children. If God forgives our such great sins against his Son should we not forgive such little sins against ourselves? - Greg Gordon

How you react when your back is against the wall will determine if you see what's actually over the wall. - Onyi Anyado

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children. - Stefan Molyneux

I held my breath tightly against the shivers coursing through my body. Darkness ate away the edges of my vision and numbness stole away my fingers. I kept holding though. Watching the last bubble of precious air escape my lips. Then it became all black. But I never let go. - Hubert Martin

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap. - William J. Bennett

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you. - Joseph Rickaby

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. - Thomas Jefferson

Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, & work together against those that choose to destroy it. - Jack Barker

Any philosophy is a sacrilege against creation. It just gives people the kinds of explanations that they want to hear. - Sadghuru

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery of our truth about the unique history of our childhood.-, author of The Drama of The Gifted Child - Alice Miller

Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best things and the best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. - Robert Frost

To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical conscience, is to stand against those who try to incubate a Reformation in the Muslim world. - Christopher Hitchens

If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. - Deepak Chopra

The Only Person I'm Prejudice Against, is The Lazy One! - Latif Mercado

Don’t measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached. - Debasish Mridha

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston S. Churchill

The response of a loyal man against the most severe grief from their love once, is always a silence, a silence forever." - T.R.Fraz

The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off. - Anonymous

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce. - Cokie Roberts

I've nothing against people. Just a***oles. But then, most people are. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.We laughed, — knowing that better men would come,And greater wars: when each proud fighter bragsHe wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags. - Wilfred Owen

If a person is outside the sin zone, the devil is powerless against him. - Sunday Adelaja

A woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self confident. - Auliq Ice

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth. - William Faulkner

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it. - William Penn

During the Vietnam War, every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high. - Kurt Vonnegut

[Taliban spokesman on Malala Yousafzai]Malala Yousafzai targeted and criticized Islam. She was against Islam and we tried to kill her, and if we get a chance again we will definitely try to kill her, and we will feel proud killing her. - Shahidullah Shahid

The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit. - Friedrich Nietzsche

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. - Alexis Carrel

Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen. - Cassandra Clare

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves. - Mahatma Gandhi

When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. - William Least Heat-Moon

We’ve yet to comprehend the impervious reality that to gain ‘life’ we have to do the most scandalous thing imaginable, and that is to work ‘against’ the whole of our humanity and give everything away. And yet to give everything away is to work ‘with’ the whole of God’s character. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

The only real insurance you have against disease is a healthy body. Invest wisely, generously and often in that policy. - Toni Sorenson

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? - John Lennon

It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world. - Tim Macartney-Snape

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings. - Kent Haruf

Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge. - Walter Dean Myers

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups. - Henry A. Wallace

The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he will follow. - Confucius

Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms her feet. - Puline Fisk

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. - Honoré de Balzac

When you take a stand against injustice inflicted upon innocent people, there will be those who will hate you for it. - Ellen J. Barrier

The flame of the inn is dim tonight,Too many vacant chairs.The sun has lost too much of its light,Too many songs have taken flight,Too many ghosts on the stairs.Charon, here's to you as man against man,I wish I could pick 'em the way you can! - Grantland Rice

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live. - Ludwig von Mises

His chuckle was low and soft against my earlobe. I think it’s more like ‘what wouldn’t I do for you? - Amanda Lance

Victories are won while on your knees! Keep praying for those who rise up against you. Fear not. The Lord has rectified the problem. Prayer is POWERFUL!! - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something. - William Bennet Munro

I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape against the jagged pieces. I would not be cut today. - Hubert Martin

The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness. - M.F. Moonzajer

There are some people who will surprise you with their perseverance... People who survive through the tears... Strong spirits who prove you wrong if you make the mistake of betting against them. - Steve Maraboli

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience as can be imagined. - David Hume

Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us. - Francis Beaumont

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice. - Lady Gaga

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. - H. L. Mencken

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone.He tries to be timeless in a society built on time. - Jack Kerouac

His eyes narrowed to slits.Power passed over her, intensifying her desire for him. She moaned and rotated her hips against him. What will you do with me now? - Lia Davis

Wisdom is merely the counter power used against on your unique talents to prevent them turning into your deadly curses. - Alper Mazun

The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes. - Marcel Proust

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society. - Guo Moruo

He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity. - The Talmud

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with. - J. K. Rowling

Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger. - Ron Paul

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right. - Leslie T. Chang

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation. - Marian Wright Edelman

Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. - H. L. Mencken

Have you ever found yourself saying, "There ought to be a law against this," or, "Somebody should do something"? Well, here’s the good news - you can be the one to do something. You can be the one to make the law. - Victoria Stoklasa MA

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. - John Wooden

Weakness employs many weapons in its perpetual war against strength. True strength does not attack; it is too busy enduring attacks, and defending itself against weakness. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another. - Edouard Manet

All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green. - Tess Callahan

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. - William Penn

Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds. - Jo Baker

The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy - James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal. - R.C. Robertson-Glasgow

I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you. - G.D. Falksen

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting. - Ambrose Bierce

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Don’t do it! Don’t you dare think about giving up! EVERYTHING has a process. Work with the process, not against it. Move forward with purpose and never stop believing. You can do this! You know you can. - Stephanie Lahart

I was against the Iraq war I was against the Afghan war I was against bombing Libya and Syria but to be quite honest and with a heavy heart because more innocent people are gonna be killed....We have to step in and help wipeout ISIS! - Cal Sarwar

Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex and a longing for freedom. - Andrea Dworkin

Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness. - Jason Mraz

Embrace the future and keep your back up against the past. - Chris Vonada

I recalled thinking...His freakishly tidy side could be a problem. To say that neatness was not my strong suit would be a crime against, well, the truth. - Betsy Cook Speer

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Malcolm X

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. - Homer

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. - Lawrence G. Lovasik

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

Laughter is a whip that keeps us in line. It's horrible to be laughed at against your will. Either you suppress unwelcome laughter or you start controlling it. - Keith Johnstone

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. - Murray N. Rothbard

The inner struggle against one’s own weaknesses is the central drama of life. - David Brooks

The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law. - Alex Levin

I have nothing against youI just learned not to trust youI know its a trial and errorBut shit, I thought I'm a solver - Mr. Pessimist

Pride rises above and against the knowledge of God, acting as if He is unworthy to be retained in our thoughts. - James MacDonald

There is so much power in choosing to love yourself against all odds and I hope with every kind of painful experience you become more aware who you are and what you are truly capable of. Life hurts but it's also remarkabley beautiful if you look past the chaos. - Nikki Rowe

A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as it was he stood there a long time. The color of it moved something in him long forgotten. Make a list. Recite a litany. Remember. - Cormac McCarthy

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. - Aristotle

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. - John Hersey

Patriotism is nothing but just a fight against materialism. More a person can do, more patriotic he or she is. - Anuj Somany

One grey hair appeared on my headI plucked it out with my hand.It answered me: "You have prevailed against me alone -What will you do when my army comes after me? - Yehuda HaLevi

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect. - Francis de Sales

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows. - Paul Eldridge

If you say a word against a ‘sensitive’ person, it will have an immediate effect. In reality, words are simply a ‘record’ playing. - Dada Bhagwan

Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God - Sunday Adelaja

What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? - Abraham Lincoln

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. - Whitney Griswold

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship. - Emma Goldman

There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. - John Stuart Mill

Like the hub of a wheel, the church’s corporate life is an extension of the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them. - Harold L. Senkbeil

A tiny company, ‘the aware’, we have taken up civilization’s fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie. - Iwan Goll

Patience creates a platform for deeply intimate communication. This platform tests our ability to listen, our willingness to be kind, and our strength against loss. This is the platform in which the most authentic types beauty can be exchanged. - Ilse Hildebrandt

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. - Louis D. Brandeis

He knows all the facts, and he's against all the solutions. - Robert F. Kennedy

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played. - James Rozoff

I’m now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I’ve had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word ‘lizard.’-- spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer... to Chris Dixon. - Richard Finney

I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes