Against Quotes

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.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.

We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations.

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.

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

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

We advised them to do what they think proper against the war.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

I don't really study the guys that I'm racing against.

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.