#against

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate. ↗

— Geena Davis

#against #brushing #careful #chocolate #early

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God. ↗

— Judy Davis

#dramatic #god #got #ideas #men

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

#ask #best #career #cup #experience

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#charity #divisive #dollar #others #pits

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#always #been #difficulties #faith #humor

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me. ↗

— Michael Dukakis

#everyone #general #good #i #like

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us. ↗

— David Eagleman

#against #backdrop #being #being human #complexities

We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#always #away #big #big government #consistent

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#against #merely #themselves #you

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. ↗

— John Foxe

#accuser #against #allowed #every #evidence