Against Quotes

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.

Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

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

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

Mother Nature comes up against reality, and the reality is that the system doesn't work.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

In 2003, this House voted to kill a Democratic amendment to add $250 million for port security grants; then again, in 2005, against a Democratic proposal calling for an additional $400 million in funding for port security.

I'm against all war.

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.