Against - Quotes
- Do you think I`m wonderful? - she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple.
- No - he said.
- Why?
- Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it`s only noon. You couldn`t be something that hundreds of others are.
I need to rebel against myself. It`s the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that`s not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
Changes only happen when we go totally against everything we`re used to doing.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism - and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
I ask the impossible: love me forever.
Love me when all desire is gone.
Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.
When the world in its entirety,
and all that you hold sacred advise you
against it: love me still more.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Cause this fight was rigged from the beginning. All day, every day, we fight against the current. Sometimes we lose.
Life doesn`t owe us a thing. It just is. Like a river, it goes where it goes. You can try to fight against the current.
The strongest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter.