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.

I never rooted against an opponent, but I never rooted for him either.

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his...

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful – that was the ’80s, and that didn’t help women.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

When a nation has just emerged from the throes of a great civil warfare, where section was arrayed against section, class against class, two things are to be done: First, the work of reconstruction is...

Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

You can watch videos and hit off the tee, stuff like that, but at the same time, it’s you against the pitcher. I just need one swing or one pitch to click, and you can...

I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

I think the most important thing that comes out of the meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt in early 1942 is a commitment on Roosevelt’s part to fight Europe first. To struggle first against Germany and...

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they’ve always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry… and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!

While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It’s the only insurance against irrelevance. It’s the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It’s the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.

Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there’s no way I couldn’t improve.

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full...

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the ’90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some...

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your...

For a long while, I was really against Twitter. I mean, who cares if I’m in an airport or had broccoli for dinner?

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.

I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days...

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

I can’t control life for my grandchildren, so how could I control a story? Sometimes I try to force something, and after working and working on that chapter, I realise that I am swimming against...

The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them,...

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren’t comfortable. There’s one surefire way to get over...

In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to...

If religion is against homosexuality, then it is against the will and happiness of people.

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...

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that’s nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.

The premise of my whole campaign has been not that people need to believe what I say to them, but they need to look at what I have done. And what I have done in...