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Against Quotes by David Levithan
- me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to…
- He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).
- And who am I to blow against the wind?
- And still, for all the jealously, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together. That someone like…
- But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: "I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing." Measure the…
- Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.
- Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes,…
- Do you know when you cross against traffic? You look down the street and see a car coming, but you know you can get across…
- I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a…
- I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die…
- Without you I wouldn't have been able to contain the hate. I would have used it against myself. You're the one who helped me control…
- We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life. You will miss the taste of…
More Against Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie… — John Green
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. — Miguel de Cervantes