I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
~By Tony Campolo ~
And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
~By Matt Stone ~
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.
~By Tom Paulin ~
Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.
~By Sarah Bernhardt ~
The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.
~By Enrico Fermi ~
Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.
~By Michael York ~
Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.
~By Jamie Redknapp ~
We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.
~By Martin Feldstein ~
I knew German history well, and out of my experiences in the rest of the world I believed to know the German kind; therefore I never doubted that, although for the time being all indications were against it, one day a change would come.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
~By Marya Mannes ~
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
~By Karl Abraham ~
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
~By John Steinbeck ~
We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
~By Yitzhak Shamir ~
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
~By Janet Reno ~
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
~By Frank Harris ~
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
~By Paul Muldoon ~
Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.
~By Ethel Waters ~
It's great playing someone who is not like me at all. I'm really a nice girl, so it's fun to be a bitch, then come home and be myself again. When I meet people now, they're surprised that I'm a good person.
~By Rachel Bilson ~
I feel like I need to sing again.
~By Peter Yarrow ~
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.
~By Kurt Student ~
If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.
~By Melissa Bean ~
My object is to stop the guy with the ball before he gains another inch.
~By Dick Lane ~
Now I can go back to being ruthless again.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.
~By John Shimkus ~
Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.
~By Arthur Murray ~
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
~By Empedocles ~
To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
~By Henry Cantwell Wallace ~
People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.
~By Birch Bayh ~
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
~By Bill Gates ~
When you balance it against New Order, New Order don't work or tour relentlessly. We definitely work in our own way and sometimes it's a bit too slow for me, so I like to plan ahead and fill my time up.
~By Peter Hook ~
Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.
~By Marie de France ~
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
~By Edward Hopper ~
When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
~By Iris Chang ~
This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the American dream, has been tested and has triumphed.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game.
~By Michel Patini ~
If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.
~By James Forrestal ~
Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.
~By David Bowie ~
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
~By Philip Kearny ~
Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
~By Kate Millett ~
Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.
~By Dick Fosbury ~
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
~By Theodore Roethke ~
No ground gained was ever relinquished.
~By Matthew B. Ridgway ~
The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.
~By Linda Chavez ~
That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.
~By Sessue Hayakawa ~
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
~By Elfriede Jelinek ~
To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.
~By Frank Shorter ~
In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
~By Barack Obama ~
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
~By John L. Phillips ~
One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.
~By Joe Morton ~
I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.
~By Mordechai Vanunu ~
There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.
~By Seth Green ~
We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs.
~By Giuseppe Garibaldi ~
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
~By Minoru Yamasaki ~
You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.
~By Connie Mack ~
But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.
~By Sophie Marceau ~
All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.
~By John Engler ~
For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.
~By Juan Cole ~
When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
Well, Peter has a writing style, but again, time changes subject matters and attitudes.
~By Josh Silver ~
I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.
~By David Gest ~
Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts.
~By Ron Paul ~
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
~By Jim Garrison ~
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.
~By Robin Roberts ~
It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it.
~By Jim Clyburn ~
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.
~By Rick Renzi ~
We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
~By Rafik Hariri ~
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!
~By Vivian Campbell ~
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
~By Epictetus ~
The President today once again took the opportunity to reiterate his old, failed national security strategies and present them to the American people as new, dynamic ideas intended to better protect the American people.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
The Republicans have put together serious detailed counter-proposals when we have objected to this administration's agenda. And so, I want to tell the President and remind him again, we're not voting no for political expediency. We've got our principles, and we're going to stand up and defend those.
~By Eric Cantor ~
The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
~By Ed Markey ~
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
~By Benjamin Harrison ~
Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.
~By Robert C. Solomon ~
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
~By John Steinbeck ~
In fact, if you look upon the situation today, there is great division in the world and we have failed to capitalize on that unity to finish the job in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda.
~By Chris Van Hollen ~
All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
~By Walter de La Mare ~
I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?
~By Debbie Allen ~
So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.
~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.
~By Simon Le Bon ~
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