Against Quotes

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.

I always play every game like my back is against the wall, that this could be it.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.