Famous Quotes & Sayings

Niels Arden Oplev

We need to keep examining evilness. For instance, I'm totally against the fact that Osama bin Laden was shot. I think that he should have been put on trial and exposed as that human being he was. I think he should've been standing mentally naked in front of the rest of us and stand to justice for what he did.

Laura Anne Gilman

The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.

The people of Oklahoma deserve better. We deserve leadership that's willing and unafraid to take a public stand against bigotry and bullying.

Meles Zenawi

I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty.

Kenny Brown

What we have to do now is carry it forward on Saturday against Leigh to try and get another good result to make some progress up the table.

Penn Jillette

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Rahul Dravid

We discussed him in our bowler's meeting last evening. Some of the guys who have played against him in county cricket think he is a very good player.

We did what you can't do against Guilford and that is make mistakes. It came down to two simple plays - a clear and a save -- we make those plays and we are tied. It will be interesting to see how each team is playing when we play again.

We did what you can't do against Guilford and that is make mistakes,

We did what we should have done against less than average pitching. Our struggles still continue when we face better than average arms. I didn't really see us make adjustments.

We did what we needed to do. Zumwalt West really came at us, especially in that first half. Our girls really felt pressured for the first time this season, and I thought we responded fairly well.... I thought we worked hard and got a win against a good opponent.

We did what we had too do. We were fighting an emotional letdown from (the 51-39 win) against Kennedy.

Shinzo Abe

We did well considering the winds were against us. It's still possible to run a stable government.

We did want to move the basketball and get the best shot available. ... But to stall was never an option. We didn't want to approach it that way. We wanted to run our system against theirs.

We are definitely disappointed, especially after the way the team played in the second half last week against Oak Grove,

Whittaker Chambers

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

Ira Glass

The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

With the issue of immigration, it's very difficult because, although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England, the more the British identity disappears.

Natalie Maines

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.

Natalie Jeremijenko

I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.

Dress for your body type. Some people are blessed enough to be able to throw on something that Beyonce wears and it looks amazing. If I try to go against the grain and wear something that my body doesn't like, it's going to show.

Lori Foster

Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. I'm not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.

Nick Hanauer

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

Neil Marshall

Shooting against greenscreen... my choice of filming is, like, I'd rather shoot on location than shoot on a set, and I'd rather shoot on a set than shoot against greenscreen. You start stripping away the layers of reality, and it becomes a lot less fun to actually film.

Louis Farrakhan

So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

Lauren Beukes

Fiction is about telling a good story, first and foremost. But of course, everything I'm interested in or angry about leaks into my writing, from art to violence against women.

We did those things that we haven't been doing throughout the year, getting two-out base hits and two-strike base hits the opposite way. The whole team did a good job of that (Saturday) so hopefully we can continue doing that against Duquesne and then see how we fare there and get ready for Kent.

We did things underneath today that we couldn't do against Villanova because of our point guard. He sees things underneath and makes plays most other guards can't.

We did the same thing we did against Mohawk. We moved two of our best guys back on defense. We're kind of setting up a bunker and hoping to mount a counterattack.

We did some things well offensively against the Bengals, but the problem is that we didn't finish drives, ... We made plays and were moving the ball, but our drives just seemed to fizzle out.

We did some good things, particularly offensively. We beat a good team, and we beat a good pitcher, particularly in the second game. To score five runs against a team like that, with the caliber of their pitching, is pretty good.

Pat Riley

We don't have an answer for that team and right now, we don't have a defensive game for it. I think you have to play against them probably four, five, six times to realize exactly what it is that you need to do to try to stop them.