Themselves Against Quotes

51 Themselves Against quotes by 46 unique authors

But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against… — Jack London
May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in… — Arundhati Roy
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will… — Virginia Woolf
Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw… — David Sedaris
We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every… — Ray Bradbury
I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind… — Sue Monk Kidd
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended… — Steven Erikson
.. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly… — Alain de Botton
Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen. — Cassandra Clare
It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made. — Christopher Hitchens
For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent.… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the… — Ernest Hemingway
You're gorgeous," she said. Her hands slid around to flatten themselves against his chest. "You know that right?" "And I just don't care," she says… — Cassandra Clare
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has… — George Eliot
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech… — Leonard Cohen
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against… — Nathaniel Branden
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet… — Gustave Le Bon
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to… — Giordano Bruno
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to… — Steve Stockman
The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in… — Bernard Beckett
All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them… — Albert Speer
Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own… — Ron Perlman
The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what… — Franjo Tudjman
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. — Thomas Jefferson
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' — George Grosz

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