Against Quotes

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

You can't build Europe against anyone.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

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.