Against Quotes

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.