Against Quotes

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

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.

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.

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.

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

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.

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.