#gains

Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#cable #claims #coalition #come #cut

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#country #dictatorship #fight #ii #injustice

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

#against #bible #church #does #freedom

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. ↗

— Tom Osborne

#always #history #matter #odds #overcome

I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God. ↗

— Manny Pacquiao

#gave #god #i #law #marriage

Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player. ↗

— Tim Page

#against #being #biggest #challenge #exciting

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#desire #even #fame #having #read

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#against #certainly #contrary #faith #see

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him. ↗

— Ron Paul

#conservatives #early #government #him #just

Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own pain. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#best #cause #definitely #his way #i