When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
I'm not against business. I'm against big business in bed with big government.
I have said many times that it's a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. equity markets because it's a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. economy.
I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
… Get up against that wall now – let’s see your face against the tiles.” Your voice is little more than a growl and the instruction takes a moment to register. You push me up against the tiles, holding my hands behind my back.
It is the job of light to speak out against darkness. Become part of that light when you see wrongs against humanity by speaking out against them. Help light our world for the future generations to come.
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grai...
Old age is no protection against foolishness.
Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold.
You can only lean against that which resists.
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
Do you want this to be a love story?
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty.
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.
We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!
I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
