Against Quotes

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

What do I have to cheat for? I've always been playing against people older than me anyways. So what do I have to cheat for?

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

You have to fight against being an antique.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.'

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.