Top 1200 Against All Odds Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Compelling a woman to wear a headscarf is against Islam, and compelling her to remove it is against human rights.

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

I think our former first lady said it last month in one of her first speeches since leaving the White House, I think I'm getting the quote nearly right- "Who could possibly be against feeding children wholesome, good food?" Well, it turns out there are people who are against feeding children wholesome good food and there are people who are against solving our homelessness problem, they're against solving our food security issues and by and along political lines.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'

So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.

If you put on your business hat, you can't maintain competitiveness by staying at a competitive disadvantage. I mean, you just can't. The odds are just not in your favor.

The story of Pakistan, its struggle and its achievement, is the very story of great human ideals, struggling to survive in the face of great odds and difficulties.

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.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

You want to have strong legs. You're in the trenches going against bigger guys in there, and you want to be able to have some force against them.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.

He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.

Life consists of two days: one for you and one against you, so when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you

I'm not sure if it's easier to play against teams who try to play football against you rather than sit back.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political aims.

Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Marshawn, he's hard to tackle. I only played against him a couple of times. We did OK against him in Chicago when I was there.

The secret to healthy conflict resolution isn't taking a 'you against me' stance. The secret is realizing it's 'us against Satan.' He's the real enemy.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.

It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.

I've been involved in air strikes against Syria and operations against Syria numerous times in my career.

As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.

Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being.

[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be a Christian, you try to come from that tradition of the Jewish prophets and then Christ and everything since. That becomes your handbook. "Witness" is the key word. You witness against the injustice, against the atrocity, against the heavy-handedness, and all the rest. We try to make a statement to other people, and we try to say it's your responsibility, too.

My very first NBA game was against the Los Angeles Lakers; it was a pre-season game against Magic Johnson.

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

I always felt at odds, politically, with people, and with any group of people that congregate and declare themselves as some sort of movement. It's usually motivated by wishing to dominate other people.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.

I've never let myself give up, because I believe in myself. I want to get stronger than I have ever been, and I will continue to tell myself that I can do it, no matter what the odds.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.