Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they’re inherently subjective. And that’s the danger, and I think as long as we’re aware of it and can push back against it, I...

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go...

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is ‘not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one...

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

‘Johnny’ was always a lone wolf when he got on stage. Him against the world, whereas suddenly, when I got into acting, people were relying on me.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

There are a lot of teams that don’t want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We’re always looking for the open space. A lot of times we’ll...

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don’t respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west’s stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art’s assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

You couldn’t find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned,...

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he...

We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity for women is, ‘Oh I want to talk to someone.’ But...

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

When I did some Nascar races this year I noticed that I was increasingly missing the racing side, to race against each other, because in rallying you really race against the clock.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind of fire wall against Iranian fundamentalism. And as it developed over the 1980s,...

We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity.

The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that...

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn’t discharge.

For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they’re very brave with the terrorists… If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they’d get...

The economy of your country shall never determine the size of your three square meals if you know you can rise against and above all limitations! The climatic emergencies in the weather shall never determine...

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That’s different from prescribing a way in which a writer should...

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

I am against any reconciliation with Israel.

Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people.

When you’re born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

I’m an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant...

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or...

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

I have never pretended to be the best Scientologist, but I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against...

I’m against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people.

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people...

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual ‘rebel,’ kicking against the ‘old colonialism-imperialism paradigm’ which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003.