Top 100 Quotes About Against The World
#1. Tyler has left me to deal with our mess all by myself. It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.
Estelle Maskame
#2. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].
Billy Graham
#3. When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west
that cloud field of the sky
to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking.
Zora Neale Hurston
#4. I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.
John Steinbeck
#5. I worry about you," he finally said to Free. "I'm afraid that you're going to break your heart, going up against the world."
"No." The wind caught her hair and sent it swirling behind her. "I'm going to break the world.
Courtney Milan
#6. I loved him with a passion of which I had no idea I was capable. I loved him partly to defend him against the world and partly because I genuinely believed we were soul mates.
Clare Balding
#7. Rage against the world, if you like, but quietly, or the Guardians will awake.
Mason Cooley
#9. As I get older I tend to rail against the world more and more.
John Connolly
#10. The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.
Cesar Vallejo
#11. The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
John Locke
#12. Prayer is in essence rebellion - rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God.
David G. Wells
#13. I've never felt that way. I've never felt like a looser. You can't get what you want if you feel like it's you against the world. You'll never get anywhere with negativity. I make my own opportunities I don't feel like everything is against me.
Zacky Vengeance
#14. You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.
Edward Snowden
#15. I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. - Raistlin Majere
Margaret Weis
#16. We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!
Josh Turner
#17. Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
Dean Koontz
#18. No one has rightly sought the truth who has not encountered at the end of this search - whether to accept or reject Him - our Lord, Jesus Christ, "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," Truth that stands against the world and is a reproach to all worldliness. - Eugene Rose
Damascene Christensen
#19. Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or shaped towards, in the individual, and in the race.
James Agee
#20. The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke
#21. The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
Bernardine Dohrn
#22. Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.
Leon Uris
#23. What's the matter with you, Madox? You got a grudge against the world?
Charles Williams
#24. In the night, he must have eaten and slept; for in the morning he was himself again, active, powerful, angry, and malignant, prepared for his last great struggle against the world.
H.G.Wells
#25. In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.
Franz Kafka
#26. Two simple ways to win a war against the world:
First, find the faults within;
Second, there is no war.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#27. I don't even like cemeteries. Morgues, either, nor anatomy museums, undertakers' parlors, funeral chapels, or any of those places where the world of the living sparks against the world of the dead, and a spot of burned out time fades, diffuse in an ocean of timelessness.
Elizaveta Mikhailichenko
#28. Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often the moment when it's them against the world.
Sarah MacLean
#29. Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.
Sun Tzu
#30. What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?
Rita Dove
#31. And, corny as it may sound, I do cherish the bond between me and the audience, the minority that follows my stuff and always makes me glad it's us against the world.
Bill Maher
#32. She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.
Patrick Rothfuss
#33. You know ... my flower ... I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world ...
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#34. A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.
Paul Russell
#35. When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally..
Paul Gallico
#36. MADDIE: ....it's just me against the world, and it's the loneliest feeling ever.
Ruby Dixon
#37. I think you have to be fair, Mr Greatrix. To treat people as kindly as you'd want those closest to you to be treated. I might be your tenant but I'm also your friend and neighbour.'
Someone once said to her that when she spoke she made people feel naked against the world.
Sunjeev Sahota
#38. It's just you and me against the world, Pidge.
Jamie McGuire
#39. Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.
Lil' Wayne
#40. Where else would I be? You need me? I'm there. It's you and me against the world now, right?
Michelle A. Valentine
#41. My weapon against the world is another vision of the world.
Jorge Teillier
#42. I like shows where, like, there's a team that they're against the world.
Ken Marino
#43. When it all comes down to it, it's just me and her against the world. Always has been.
Jessica Sorensen
#44. What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.
James Buchan
#45. So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,
interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.
Peter Ackroyd
#46. Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
Robert Wyatt
#47. I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.
Cindy Sheehan
#48. I took my Power in my Hand
And went against the World
'Twas not so much as David
had
But I
was twice as bold
I aimed by Pebble
but Myself Was all the one that fell
Was it Goliath
was too large
Or was myself
too small?
Emily Dickinson
#49. My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
Nick Cave
#51. My flower is ephemeral," the little prince said to himself, "and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left her on my planet, all alone!"
That was his first moment of regret. But he took courage once more.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#52. All my life I waited for someone who would say things like that to me. And for someone I didn't feel alone in the presence of. Someone who understood. Someone who would make me feel like it wasn't just me against the world.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#53. There's something
so great about this," she whispers.
About what?" I whisper back.
About this," she whispers.
About being outlaws.
It's just you and me - against the world.
Sonya Sones
#54. The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.
Deborah Tannen
#55. We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young Muslims from 'Jihad Against the World' to 'Freedom and Democracy.'
George Voinovich
#56. 5 And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
Anonymous
#57. But he was coming. He would be here soon, all sweet and brave and shattered and kind. He would come carrying and clever-fingered and oh so unaware of oh so many things. He was rough against the world, but even so ...
Patrick Rothfuss
#58. I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?
Edmund Blunden
#59. Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.
Helen Reddy
#60. Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.
Arnold Haultain
#62. But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.
J. Limbu
#63. It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#64. O, Senator, drop your trousers! Loosen your cravat! Eschew your spats and step into that shallow, teeming world of mayflies and dragonflies and frogs' eyes staring eye-to-eye with your own, and the silty bottom. Cease your filibuster against the world God gave you.
Paul Harding
#65. It's been me and you against the world forever," he says. "It's always been that way.
Tahereh Mafi
#66. It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.
Jeaniene Frost
#67. Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
Jacques Barzun
#68. World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.
Alice Walker
#69. I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.
Benmont Tench
#70. I don't miss my father, but without his shackles to strain against, the world is terrifying and vast. I have lost a kind of purpose, a reason to prove myself.
Chris Offutt
#71. I'm just a battler, which means it'll be us against the world, and the world will probably
win hands down every time, but we'll never give up fighting, no matter what, how does that sound?
Steve Toltz
#72. He stares down into me and says, "I'll keep her safe."
My eyes well with tears while my lips pull high. "Against the world, Loren Hale?"
"Yeah," he nods. "Against the world, Lily Calloway. I'm familiar with that battle.
Krista Ritchie
#73. Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.
Robert Laxalt
#74. I love keeping house ... it's really a lovely phrase isn't it? Keeping it ... holding it fast against the world ... against all the forces trying to tear it open.
L.M. Montgomery
#75. I have more enemies than I deserve," I said. "I am fighting a losing battle, me against the world. The next century is at stake. Time is running out and my optimism is sorely strained."
"Yeah?" he said. "I was young once too.
Felix Gilman
#76. You've got a better chance with me, Dru. Don't do something stupid again. If something happens, it's you and me against the world. Got it?
Lili St. Crow
#77. It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
Brooke Shields
#78. Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
Richard Peck
#79. Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world ...
Chuck Palahniuk
#80. By rubbing up against the world, I define myself to myself.
Deane Juhan
#82. Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.
David Adam
#83. I'll back English women against the world, Harry," said Lord Fermor, striking the table with his fist. "The betting is on
Oscar Wilde
#84. In another life, I would be your girl, we keep all our promises, the us against the world, In another life, I would make you stay, So I don't have to say you were the one that got away the one that got away
Katy Perry
#85. Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
Trey Anastasio
#87. Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.
Robert Breault
#90. Woe to him, ... who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
Thomas Carlyle
#92. A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
Iris Murdoch
#93. U.S. history that while the nation fought its greatest war against the world's worst racist, it maintained a segregated army abroad and a total system of discrimination at home.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#95. The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#96. In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It
George MacDonald Fraser
#97. You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.
Edward Snowden
#98. Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding expiation, if the yearning for pleasure is not at the same time a yearning for motherhood.
Arthur Schnitzler
#99. 'Johnny' was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.
Johnny Vegas
#100. When I heard 'Moon River', at first I thought it was just a nice song, but then I started paying attention to the words and realized this song was about Huck Finn. I just love the words, that it's kind of you and me against the world, and we're going to make it together.
Drew Holcomb
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