Against The Trend Quotes

#1. I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

Jesmyn Ward

#2. You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

Eric Rohmer

#3. When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.

Milton Friedman

#4. As a minority author going against the trend, I have only one wish: Should my work fade into obscurity, let it be because my talents are found lacking.

Yi Zhu

#5. I think things that contribute to the destruction of our free-incentive system are wrong. A trend against that free-incentive system is wrong, and should only be temporarily engaged in, in the event that war or something of that kind requires it. Otherwise, it should be reduced.

George M. Humphrey

#6. The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.

Piers Corbyn

#7. If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka.

David Miliband

#8. The blue lights reflected on Abby's face, and I had to really concentrate through the liquor not to kiss her.

Jamie McGuire

#9. How much of the audience's fun was sacrificed in the effort to redefine the social parameters of the concert hall - it sounds almost masochistic of the upper crust, curtailing their own liveliness, but I guess they had their priorities. Although the quietest

David Byrne

#10. It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

Lysander Spooner

#11. I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence.

Dean Koontz

#12. You took all my words when all I wanted to do was say them.

Pleasefindthis

#13. But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

J.D. Salinger

#14. We do have a two against one rule. If two sisters feel very strongly about a design or trend we want to try, we go for it.

Kourtney Kardashian

#15. The past one year saw people turning Twitter into a battlefield of clashing opinions by creating hashtags against the enemy and making them trend.

Anonymous

#16. The DA is the only party in South Africa that has grown in every national election and that trend must continue, and it must accelerate, because South Africa is in a race against time to save our democracy.

Helen Zille

#17. Courage and endurance are useless of they are never tested.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#18. The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. I'm in favour of hipster androgyny: Any trend that permits men to rebel against strict gender rules of appearance is going to make the world a more expressive and sensitive place for all of us.

Russell Smith

#20. The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

Guy Spier

#21. Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

Martin Feldstein

#22. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

Pat Conroy

#23. Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

George Soros

#24. I think, as an artist, part of your job is being aware of what's going on around you and not selling out and not following the trend, which I'm totally against.

Tyler Farr

#25. When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.

Kelli O'Hara