I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said...

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block...

So much of ‘Fight Club’ was a rant against fathers.

I got into lobbying kind of against my will at first. I frankly didn’t want to be a lobbyist, but I realized that in lobbying I could do things politically that were interesting to me...

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

The opposition tried to brand us as the ‘Ground Zero megamosque.’ The language was deliberately wordsmithed in order to arouse hostility against us. But the idea that the Jewish mayor of New York City and...

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don’t embarrass myself.

Most executives are male, so it’s always sort of their vision of stuff. I’m constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my...

I came out when I was 17. I was in the church; I was crying every Sunday for about a year. I came to terms with the fact with this is who I was –...

Whether it’s repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common – they exist to keep women ‘in their place.’ To make sure that...

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

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...

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that ‘all religions are basically the...

I learned to play football in the streets. Every day of school, everyone came and played football. The street is a good school, and you learn many things there – resiliency, how to play against...

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you’re really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us...

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

I had a hard time treating my field as if it’s horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really...

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early ’70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That’s what you’re up against.

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in...

You may have been born on the rubbish damp. But be careful not to believe that the rubbish damp was born in you! Your environment may try to set conditions that may attempt their fingers...

But I’m very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.

I’m very much against the secondary ticket market. I don’t know anyone who isn’t.

I don’t really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.

The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

Sometimes, somehow…I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.

I don’t want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I’ve got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to build up the American military power to assure our national...

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

I’ve stood outside my house in Montana looking at the northern lights… crackling against the night sky. To me, that’s magic.

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition – and winning.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn’t like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to...

My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There’s a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you’re doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The...

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

You see, I have in my teaching – I always say I’ve done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students – I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees...

Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children’s decisions.

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...

I like to go against the grain, against what’s out there. Every day is like a challenge.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one...