Against Quotes

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

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 interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

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.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.