Quotes of: Against Keyword

There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.

Somebody I Used to Know

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

Shopaholic Ties the Knot

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Middlemarch

I wouldn't be comfortable, but at least I'd have marginal protection against pointy steel objects that went stab in the night.

Magic Lost, Trouble Found

The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot

Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

Missin' (Novel)

Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

The Magician's Nephew

Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.

Men Are Like Waffles--Women Are Like Spaghetti

It is time to reverse this prejudice against conscious effort and to see the powers we gain through practice and discipline as eminently inspiring and even miraculous.

Mastery

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

My Own Story

It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.

The Night Circus

His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me.

Night Games

The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.

Nightwoods

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

The eye--it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will.

Lyrical Ballads

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

Lord of Chaos

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Hannah leaned against the wall. 'Mind if I call shotgun?' 'Since you're carrying one? Feel free.

Lord of Misrule

She grabbed his hair and pulled his mouth tighter against her lips. She wanted to possess and devour him.

Longinus the Vampire: Redemption