An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.
I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.
He had defended himself against death from without, and then it had carried him off from within.
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
The facts about our past are powerless against the blood of Jesus and the Truth of His Word.
