Against Quotes

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

I think my emotional revulsion against Stalin's terror would have stopped me in my tracks.

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Everything in our favour was against us.

Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration.