#against

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. ↗

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ↗

#airplane #everything #going #off #remember

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. ↗

— Anatole France

#against #believers #certain #constructing #degree

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference. ↗

— Harry Chapin

#bullet #difference #feeling #got #i

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#claim #comes #condition #deck #dues

I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#align #also #always #bar #believe

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#always #anyone #i #i always #never

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law. ↗

— Edward Coke

#continued #force #hath #how #law

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#against #bulwark #deception #even #god

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. ↗