Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.
In Hollywood, there really is a stigma against wrestling. I think that's why people think wrestlers are Neanderthals who can't string two words together.
When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.
It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.
I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
Life however is teeming with vitality and is likewise terribly tenacious; holding on against impossible odds in impossible situations over impossible lengths of time.
Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
I've stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights... crackling against the night sky. To me, that's magic.
Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
Allied supplies of arms to Russia, and the manpower reserves of Russia have been sufficient to bring continuous counter-attacks against our Eastern Front.
I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
There's so knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
