Quotes of: Against Keyword

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

Debbie Gibson

I like to think of myself as my own guy. I don't want to be labeled as a Tea Party guy, but I'm not necessarily against their agenda.

David Joyce

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

Deborah Kass

V is like a mythical situation. It's an allegory for what could happen. V has philosophies within it that actually warn against things like that happening.

David Lloyd

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

Jaye Davidson

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

John Flavel

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

Jean Ingelow

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Jesse Jackson

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

Jack Kingston

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

Joel Kinnaman

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.

Janna Levin

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

Jessica Lange

I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.

Gray Davis

Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.

Gray Davis

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

George Haven Putnam

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

Neil MacGregor

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Andrew Wyke: I have nothing against lapsed Catholics. In fact, some of my best friends are lapsed Catholics.

Sleuth

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Aristotle