Quotes About Against

#1. Maya wrapped one leg around him, writhing against him as she threaded her fingers through his hair and held him to her, urging him on.
"Never stop touching me that way," Maya rasped. - Author: Sara Humphreys

#2. With regard to threats against you. I would care to apprise you of a certain individual you would be wise to watch with care." Wrath cocked an eyebrow over the rim of his wraparound. "Do tell. - Author: J.R. Ward

#3. For centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power. - Author: Dale Spender

#4. But before she could speak another word, he crushed his mouth against hers. - Author: Morgan Rhodes

#5. Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.' - Author: Dennis Hull

#6. Germany stands in the fight against terrorism at France's side, united with many, many others. I am convinced that, despite all the difficulties, we shall win this fight. - Author: Angela Merkel

#7. The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood. - Author: Martin Luther

#8. Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them. - Author: Germaine Greer

#9. Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past? - Author: Sarah Parcak

#10. Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing. - Author: Gerhard Richter

#11. How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Human beings are empowered to exercise dominion over nature and even to be participants in creation; and yet, at the same time, there are strictures against idolatry, which is a kind of overreaching and confusing human beings' role with God's. - Author: Michael Sandel

#13. How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other. - Author: F.E. Higgins

#14. The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross. - Author: Rumi

#15. I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul. - Author: James Joyce

#16. so-and-so is using?' You just knew. I never held it against anyone. It was one of those things where you knew they were just trying to keep their jobs, extend their careers. I guess I didn't - Author: John Feinstein

#17. To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards. - Author: Oswald Chambers

#18. The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. - Author: Martin Van Creveld

#19. Forget your opponents; always play against par. - Author: Sam Snead

#20. If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater. - Author: Alan Sillitoe

#21. The fourth cat stepped forward; Yellowfang didn't know his name. He was a skinny gray tom, and he studied Brokentail carefully before he spoke. I give you a life for truth. Without it, kin is set against kin, Clan against Clan. Hold fast to truth in all your dealings and let it guide your words. - Author: Erin Hunter

#22. My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you. - Author: Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#23. My shirt bunched up around my waist, and the feeling of his hi-there against my hoohah was indescribable. - Author: Alice Clayton

#24. For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority. - Author: Albert Einstein

#25. The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who made the RC's vows of celibacy seem like a crime against the human gene pool. - Author: Julia Spencer-Fleming

#26. Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence. - Author: Mohamed ElBaradei

#27. History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free. - Author: Tariq Ramadan

#28. I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly against it, and find all the means to end it. We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come. - Author: Muhammad Yunus

#29. But in the secret camps, the war against the Islamic religion was more than obvious. - Author: Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#30. Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. - Author: Paul Cellucci

#31. The smell of blood remains for generations. - Author: Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#32. I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true. - Author: Andy Cohen

#33. Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else. - Author: Malcolm X

#34. The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them is absolutely an outcome of imperialism and the impact of British rule in India. - Author: Beeban Kidron

#35. Spar felt a tiny thud on the back of his shin, as if a moth had butted against him on its flight through the night air. Wait, had that been the small human? Had she kicked him? He could not tell by glancing at her face. - Author: Christine Warren

#36. Tom pounded into him. Prophet bit out a howl, hooked his ankles behind Tom's back and dug his heels against the man's ass, forcing him deeper inside. - Author: S.E. Jakes

#37. Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God's beginning. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#38. Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general. - Author: Louis MacNeice

#39. To fully relate to another, one must first relate to oneself. If we cannot embrace our own aloneness, we will simply use the other as a shield against isolation. - Author: Irvin D. Yalom

#40. Tell me what you want?" His breath was warm against her lips.
"I want you."
"How? Give me permission, tell me it's okay to strip you naked, kiss you wherever the need takes me, and f**k you until you can't see straight."
"Yes, yes, please, all of that. - Author: Dominique Eastwick

#41. 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. - Author: Estelle Maskame

#42. The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other. - Author: Saul Alinsky

#43. Rome had freed the Greeks, but on condition that both war and class war should end. Freedom without war was a novel and irksome life for the city-states that made up Hellas; the upper classes yearned to play power politics against neighboring cities, and - Author: Will Durant

#44. And still I stayed to plan all my revenge, my vengeance against those who had turned me from good to evil, and made of me what I was going to be from this day forward. - Author: Virginia C. Andrews

#45. People say, 'Weren't you deprived of your childhood?' No way. I would not take anything back at all. Everything about it was great. I got to go places, meet people, play baseball against older kids and better competition. I had a great time. - Author: Bryce Harper

#46. [T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361). - Author: Richard Baxter

#47. It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things. - Author: Penny Marshall

#48. Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#49. about the biology of stress and recovery, stress seems to have an effect on the brain similar to that of vaccines on the immune system. In limited doses, it causes brain cells to overcompensate and thus gird themselves against future demands. Neuroscientists call this phenomenon stress inoculation. - Author: John J. Ratey

#50. This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.
So shall I vindicate my virgin mother
and reveal myself to mortals as a God,
the son of God. - Author: Euripides

#51. The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil. - Author: Pope Francis

#52. I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs. - Author: Rebecca McNutt

#53. I would not want to be a politician ... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign? - Author: Chuck Norris

#54. Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad. - Author: Arthur Hertzberg

#55. Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. - Author: Andrea Dworkin

#56. How do you measure what's real, what's true? How do you stack up all that's pure against all that's evil? - Author: Jennifer Handford

#57. I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you. - Author: Richard Paul Evans

#58. If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by eight thousand and fifty pounds, you've left the realm of combat and enrolled yourself in Road-kill 101. Or possibly in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. - Author: Jim Butcher

#59. I reached for something to hold on to and ended up leaning against the wall behind me - Author: Penny Reid

#60. To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures - Author: Hayao Miyazaki

#61. From the moment she'd first seen him in the Fontaine ballroom, she'd been lost. The passionate kiss a week later had destroyed her. Even now she could feel the heat of his expert lips against hers, and the remembrance of his taste made her mouth water. - Author: Sylvia Day

#62. Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters. - Author: Umberto Eco

#63. The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about. - Author: Johnny Cash

#64. When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. You want him to become a robot. - Author: Ayn Rand

#65. Writing is a struggle against silence. - Author: Carlos Fuentes

#66. You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times. - Author: Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#67. Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run up against them. And, damn it, to care. - Author: Nora Roberts

#68. He considered my question for a moment and then ducked his head to kiss me. He tugged me flush up against his chest , pulling me closer than i even though possible, and then his lips touched mine. - Author: Colleen Houck

#69. Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the Nazis in a concentration camp, to take an extreme case ... - Author: Noam Chomsky

#70. Gratitude is the number one spiritual combatant against bitterness and anger. A thankful spirit naturally uproots and prevents dark emotions from poisoning the soil of our spirits. - Author: Anna Blanc

#71. To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization. - Author: Daniel Pipes

#72. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings. - Author: Sharon Salzberg

#73. I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself. - Author: Elvis Costello

#74. Julian gave his brother a slow, sweet smile. In that smile was all the love and wonder of the little boy who'd lost his brother and against all odds, gotten him back. - Author: Cassandra Clare

#75. What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them. - Author: Bartolome De Las Casas

#76. Reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique not universal and uniting to renew and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies. - Author: Samuel P. Huntington

#77. Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against? - Author: Mary E. Pearson

#78. In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization. - Author: Edward Grey

#79. The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still alive and active in the world. - Author: Pope John Paul II

#80. She had taken her vows and then they had taken her, and the forces amassed against her were greater than love, greater than obligation. They were elemental, heavy as a dead planet. - Author: Haven Kimmel

#81. The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government. - Author: Madonna Ciccone

#82. You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty. - Author: Nicole Krauss

#83. My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight. - Author: Gina Carano

#84. Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs. - Author: Henry Rollins

#85. I must warn you against the impression that mine is the final word on nonviolence. All I claim is that every experiment of mine has deepened my faith in nonviolence as the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. - Author: Mark Shepard

#86. Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair. - Author: Kim Stanley

#87. So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes. - Author: L. Ron Hubbard

#88. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste. - Author: Howard Thurman

#89. It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it. - Author: Ben H. Winters

#90. [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil. - Author: Martin Luther King Jr.

#91. New research suggests that we may hold an unconscious bias against creative ideas much like we do in cases of racism or phobias. - Author: Anonymous

#92. I have no animosity against any living soul. - Author: Heber J. Grant

#93. When the Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He sees not what you lost or won, but how you played the game! - Author: A.A. Khan

#94. Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people. - Author: Mark Shields

#95. A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody. - Author: William J. Clinton

#96. Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus. - Author: Pope Francis

#97. When you hear music so beautiful it gives you chills, those are angel wings brushing against you. - Author: Tiffany Reisz

#98. A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. - Author: Gerald R. Ford

#99. He is a blind man and I am his book of braille. His breath against my collarbone raises goosebumps on my arm as I let him read my story. - Author: Alanna Rusnak

#100. I love you," he said against her lips. "I love you, too," she said but the words that always seemed so big felt small now. What was love when put up against war? - Author: Kristin Hannah