#gain

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay. ↗

— Ruben Studdard

#against #come #finish #i #long

I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#anyone #credentials #i #progressive #put

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#against #believe #dollar #every #federal

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#angry #himself #man #reason #returns

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#against #altogether #another #create #even

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. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#editor #every #field #i #letter

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars. ↗

— William Styron

#beheld #came #forth #once #stars

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time. ↗

— Anna Sui

#disco #happen #punk #reaction #really

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#again #began #beginning #each #fail

I was only in LA for two weeks when I got that job. And I didn't work again for two years. ↗

— Nicole Sullivan

#got #i #job #la #only