Set Against Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

• If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side. — John Waters
• Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only. — Thomas Carlyle
• Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a… — Sara Gruen
• The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written… — David Selbourne
• I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels… — Richard Russo
• Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many… — Beverley Nichols
• I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary. — Elton John
• I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball. — George Steinbrenner
• I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss… — Erich Maria Remarque
• I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. — John Milton
• Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
• A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. — May Sarton
• Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that… — Tamora Pierce
• There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing… — Alice Munro
• Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life… — Madeleine L'Engle

Who Wrote These Set Against Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 15 Set Against Quotes as follows:

• 1 Set Against Quote by George Steinbrenner
• 1 Set Against Quote by Erich Maria Remarque
• 1 Set Against Quote by John Milton
• 1 Set Against Quote by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
• 1 Set Against Quote by May Sarton
• 1 Set Against Quote by Tamora Pierce
• 1 Set Against Quote by Alice Munro
• 1 Set Against Quote by Madeleine L'Engle
• 1 Set Against Quote by John Waters
• 1 Set Against Quote by Thomas Carlyle
• 1 Set Against Quote by Sara Gruen
• 1 Set Against Quote by David Selbourne
• 1 Set Against Quote by Richard Russo
• 1 Set Against Quote by Beverley Nichols
• 1 Set Against Quote by Elton John