The modern struggle – Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising, up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games...

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they’re not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

It’s something that I think I’m going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It’s not what...

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

I’m quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I’m against diets. I eat when I’m hungry, three meals a day.

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began...

The right to bear arms is because it’s the last form of defense against tyranny.

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer’s, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

You’ve got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you’re going to fall over and be still for awhile.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of...

I’m against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

The alliance should agree… to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

As long as I am alive, there will be no rest for the enemies of Islam. I will continue my mission against them.

The Republicans have lost their standards; they’ve lost their principles… Really, that’s why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against me… They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government.

Knowing what you’re up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what’s out there to begin with.

Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

We’re competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That’s why it’s important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

The world has placed chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in a separate category because their use constitutes a crime against all humanity.

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the...

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It’s to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

In business, there’s a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it – which is sometimes something that’s quite hard to do, when you’re talking...

You can’t judge a character that you’re playing, because then you’re fighting against doing what the character’s doing.

I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn’t praise it.

I don’t really study the guys that I’m racing against.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys’ network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

The world is no longer against us.

Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements.

I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

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.

I’ve learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn’t move.

Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let’s say, Algeria was because of its gas, because of its size, because of its struggle against terrorism that sometimes turned bloody.

Fame comes and goes; knowledge comes and stays. But none of them safeguard us against danger; it’s only the GRACE of God that keeps us in safety!

Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

It is true that when there’s a drone attack, those – that the – the terrorists are killed, it’s true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more...

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

The first organised opposition by women to women’s suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.

Nowadays, people send rockets into space, and I think it does make you question if there’s a God. They can make babies in a dish now! Everything we’re seeing goes against what people always believed...

Bond is part of the system. He’s an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It’ll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is...

I don’t know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn’t been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.