Quotes 121 till 140 of 652.
-
Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
-
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
-
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
-
Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
-
Don't be against things so much as for things.
-
Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.
-
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
-
Education must have two foundations - morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
-
Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.
-
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
-
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
-
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
-
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
-
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
-
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
-
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
-
Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.
-
Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.
Middlesex (2003) 524 -
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
All against famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 7)
