Against Quotes
11155 Against quotes by 5617 unique authors
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I'm not against taking shots, but I am against taking bad shots.
— Henry Iba
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Practice habits were crucial to my development in basketball. I didn't play against the toughest competition in high school, but one reason I was able…
— Larry Bird
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
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Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
— Renzo Piano
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It was important that we kept moving the puck and moving forward as a team. It is good that we practiced today. The rivalry we…
— Caroline Ouellette
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I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the…
— Cherie Piper
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It's tough, it's not the scenario that we wanted for sure. I thought our desperation was there, we worked hard, but it was one game,…
— Sidney Crosby
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People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
— Rick Warren
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What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we…
— Erik Brynjolfsson
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their…
— Cesare Pavese
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural…
— Cesare Pavese
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Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to…
— Goldie Hawn
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It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can we navigate this…
— Jack Kornfield
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Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be…
— Mao Zedong
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Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.
— Johan Cruijff
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Nothing can tend so much to humble us before the mercy and justice of God as the consideration of His benefits and our own sins.…
— Francis of Assisi
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I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong…
— Billy Graham
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When we land against the enemy, don't forget to hit him and hit him hard. When we meet the enemy we will kill him. We…
— George S. Patton
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Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the…
— Alexander the Great
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Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because…
— Alexander the Great
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It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life…
— Adolf Hitler
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The greatness of our Army has always been the ability of our soldiers who serve in the ranks to rise to the challenge against the…
— Julius W. Gates
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