I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

The father figure is something I love but also suffocate from and want to work against.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists for instance take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority then we would be more open to slavery to the subjugation of women to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

My mother was very strong. Once she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

To build a great company which is a CEO's job sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

I have a crusade against fondant also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages I would always lay a wager than the man If not the wedding day is absolutely fixed on.

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law a war that was wrong and immoral.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

I'm against all war.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

I want to wage war against illiteracy poverty unemployment unfair competition communitarianism delinquency.

The fight this war this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Everything everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

I am one who believes that we are in fact engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful one can wage a pitiless war but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.