#against

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall. ↗

— John Kruk

#against #beat #city #head #kansas

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. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

#although #being #believed #change #come

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#against #argue #argument #credible #criticise

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#belief #cambridge #course #everything #gradually

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate. ↗

— George William Russell

#allow #defeat #fight #hate #insure

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation. ↗

— Lord John Russell

#faction #impossible #nation #prevail #should

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can. ↗

— Richard Russo

#books #closely #comic #each #i

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#allows #attacks #best #dangerous #detainees

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bothering #declaim #flame #lights #passions

I have a red line against the Americans. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#i #line #red #red line