Against Quotes

The calories are working against you for heart disease. Obesity is not what you want for eating chocolate because that will defeat all the benefit.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

A fighter is someone who rises up, even when the odds are stacked against them.

A fighter is someone who rises up, even when the odds are stacked against them.

One who lies for you will also lie against you.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

The Supreme Court made an important pronouncement against political corruption. It provided a useful tool, the disgorgement remedy, for use in civil litigation as a deterrent to the payment of bribes to secure government business.

Who am I to blow against the wind?

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

The war against the devil continues. But there is still much work to be done and to finish the job we must get to Kinshasa.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Obviously, it's very difficult to justify one action against the other when evacuees and local poor people are both in need.

Some teams assemble machines built by corporations but our kids do their own. That means we go up against programmers from big companies but this way they get more out of it.

Against the backdrop of low interest rates, many first-time home buyers have poured into the market, leading to changes in the size of the new housing products offered.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.