Against Us Quotes

#1. I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have.

Bernie Sanders

#2. Duty, Tattycoram. Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves.

Charles Dickens

#3. Infinity is against us," I told him. "There's no way for us ever to count it or control it or understand it.

David Levithan

#4. If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31b NKJV)

Anonymous

#5. I always said, "When things come against us we can either turn on each other, or we can come together and turn on it."
-Chip Gaines

Joanna Gaines

#6. After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do nor now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest mistakes.

Mao Zedong

#7. All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

Mason Cooley

#8. However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. The sword that has been forged against us - is already blunted;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. Jesus of Nazareth told us to say these twelve words when we prayed: 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.'
... And for those words alone, he deserves to be called ;the Prince of Peace.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. Once we see that our salvation has never depended on anything we do, we have nothing to fear and nothing to prove. God in Christ has already provided every proof we need to be acquitted of every charge against us.

Dan Montgomery

#12. We must focus on prayer as the main thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us have never been greater, and this is the only way we can release God's power to become victorious

John C. Maxwell

#13. God in nature is God above us, God in law is God against us, but God in Christ is God with us and for us. -James Bennett

E.J. Evans

#14. Love doesn't have any color. Other people may discriminate against us, but what is more important is whether we discriminate against them. If we don't do that, we are a happier person, and as a happier person, we are in a position to help. And anger, this is not a help.

Nhat Hanh

#15. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. We are surrounded on all sides by God but often we are no more conscious of him than we are of air pressing against us. We don't turn our attention to Him. (Evelyn Underhill)

Sue Monk Kidd

#17. Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.

Beth Moore

#18. I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!

Paul Taylor

#19. The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!

Ashwin Sanghi

#20. I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us by the people we're trying to combat.

Charles W. Freeman Jr.

#21. If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

Simon Bolivar

#22. You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.

Sam Brownback

#23. If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

Rick Warren

#24. Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#25. Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

Madeleine Albright

#26. What if you could stand against us - hold your own, a High Lady?" "There are no High Ladies." His brows furrowed, but he shook his head. "We'll talk about that later, too. But yes, Feyre - there can be High Ladies.

Sarah J. Maas

#27. We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. As true as God's own word is true; Nor earth, nor hell, with all their crew, Against us shall prevail. A jest, and by-word, are they grown; God is with us, we are his own, Our victory cannot fail.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29. It was actually very difficult., especially during the first five years of the start-up stage, when all the odds seemed to be against us - this is probably true for most entrepreneurs. To succeed, you really have to put your heart and soul into it. (p. 71)

Injap Sia

#30. There is much in nature against us. But we forget:
Take nature altogether since time began,
Including human nature, in peace and war,
And it must be a little more in favor of man ...

Robert Frost

#31. We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.

Maria Cantwell

#32. That's the hate they're giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That's Thug Life

Angie Thomas

#33. Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#34. The most dangerous weapon that can be used against us is that of playing with our minds.

Ava Brown

#35. We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people,including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#36. If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

Charles Spurgeon

#37. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

H.G.Wells

#38. I don't think I'll ever become used to you Ellis sisters' penchant for whisky."
She waved an idle hand as she surveyed the room. "We're half Scottish. I think there might be a law against us not liking it.

Kristen Callihan

#39. When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

Billy Graham

#40. I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#41. Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us ...

H.L. Mencken

#42. If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.

Chris Christie

#43. The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003.

Elliott Abrams

#44. We appear to be hardwired to punish those who have slighted us, even if - and this is the counterintuitive bit - even if our acts of vengeance hurt us more than those who have trespassed against us.

Peter Watts

#45. With four-to-one odds against us, our ability to leave the encounter without serious damage becomes seriously impaired." "Spock," McCoy said gently, "your bedside manner is flawless. You mean, we're all going to be blown to hell." Spock hesitated, then nodded.

Diane Duane

#46. We've got to be outstanding when we start and let other people chase against us.

Bryan Robson

#47. We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.

George Steiner

#48. Sometimes I really do feel that Peter Griffin is right about the clouds plotting against us.

Rickey Russell

#49. If the laws of physics be for us, who can be against us?!

Frank J. Tipler

#50. When we're down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we're made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.

Charles Martin

#51. So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the event of which she would be prepared to make common cause against us. But when an end is put to any such hope, she will speedily settle her difference with us.

John C. Calhoun

#52. Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us.

Randy Alcorn

#53. The Bible says no one has ever looked upon God and lived. God is perfectly good, and can't be in the presence of evil, even the smallest evil. Without his Son's sacrifice as a covering, we can't be in the presence of God without being destroyed, because his anger would be kindled against us.

John Michael Hileman

#54. I think they need to remove the general. He is unfit for the position he is being called upon to serve, precisely because he's become a liability. He's become a weapon our enemies will use against us.

James Zogby

#55. This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless,
our chances of being alive together
statistically nonexistent;

Lisel Mueller

#56. We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.

Teresa Of Avila

#57. We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Jennifer Pahlka

#58. Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

George Horace Lorimer

#59. By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.

Matthew Henry

#60. Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.

Paul Weyrich

#61. When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Pam Brown

#62. We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#63. We laugh & it pits the world against us.

Richard Siken

#64. The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

Abraham Lincoln

#65. Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

Elizabeth Bibesco

#66. Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Kurt Vonnegut

#67. Perhaps we have been guilty of speaking against someone and have not realized how it may have hurt them. Then when someone speaks against us, we suddenly realize how deeply such words hurt, and we become sensitive to what we have done.

Theodore Epp

#68. How I wish we could all see the cost of our choices as clearly as a price tag on items in a store. If I know how much something is going to cost me, I make much wiser choices. But we have an enemy who schemes against us to keep the cost of dumb decisions concealed until it's too late.

Lysa TerKeurst

#69. I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty.

Toussaint Louverture

#70. What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.

Kurt Vonnegut

#71. Let people pray to God, it's nothing to me. Some good may even come of it, if goodness is something that matters to you. Trap him in churches if you must, and lament him there. But Roma? Roma is a weapon used against us. A poison flavoured sweet and given to hungry men.

Mark Lawrence

#72. I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.

Michel De Montaigne

#73. The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us.

Henry McNeal Turner

#74. Whoever's not with us is against us. That kind of thinking nearly brought an end to history, more than once. This

Rick Yancey

#75. The average person might well be no happier today than in 1800. Even the freedom we value so highly may be working against us. We can choose our spouses, friends and neighbors, but they can choose to leave us.

Yuval Noah Harari

#76. There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

William Gurnall

#77. There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.

Sarah Vowell

#78. Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.

Mary Pope Osborne

#79. not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come to us quickly, for we have become weak.

Anonymous

#80. They cannot stand alone against us," Temujin said. "We will take them one by one.

Conn Iggulden

#81. Our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son's death. Not in our son's name.

Orlando Rodriguez

#82. Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

Thomas Jefferson

#83. The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us.

Chuck D

#84. I do not reject responsibility - our movement made mistakes, like every other movement in the world. But there was another aspect that was outside our control - the enemy's activities against us.

Pol Pot

#85. When we stop interfering and are wise enough to let the psychophysiological connection work for us instead of against us, our minds rush as quickly as possible towards perfect health.

Deepak Chopra

#86. Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Christopher Columbus

#87. Like Artemis and Orion, fate was working against us, and we couldn't be together in this life. But he will forever be immortalized in my heart.

A. Zavarelli

#88. At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.

Keith Olbermann

#89. The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.

Harry S. Truman

#90. It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.

Ted Dekker

#91. That bumper sticker everyone has down in Philadelphia, the one that says, 'Only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent,' really isn't true. God couldn't have made all the saves that Parent made against us.

Jerry Korab

#92. The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us.

Beeban Kidron

#93. Every society needs a cry like that, but only in a very few do they come out with the complete, unvarnished version, which is "Remember-The-Atrocity-Committed-Against-Us-Last-Time-That-Will-Excuse-The-Atrocity-That-We're-About-To-Commit-Today! And So On! Hurrah!

Terry Pratchett

#94. We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#95. The most important thing is not what others are planning against us, but what our reaction is to what is happening

Sunday Adelaja

#96. The BBC will always be attacked by whoever is in government. It is that George Bush thing of 'If you're not with us you are against us.'

Graham Norton

#97. All of our children are prey. How do we raise them not to prey upon themselves and each other? And this is why we cannot be silent, because our silences will come to testify against us out of the mouths of our children.

Audre Lorde

#98. If God is for us, who can be against us?

Anonymous

#99. It comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief.

Lauren Groff

#100. Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.

Frederick Douglass