Quotes of Opposing - somelinesforyou

“ It's a good turnout. Rivaling Hollywood. ”

- Josh Hartnett

“ The positive and negative indications right now are that Milosevic has made a half compromise and he is still defying the will of the international community on other issues. ”

- Wesley Clark

“ Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late. ”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“ Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that? ”

- Nikita Khrushchev

“ No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. ”

- Dick Morris

“ It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. ”

- Cynthia McKinney

“ To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one. ”

- Paul Auster

“ I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish. ”

- Kerri Strug

“ I have come to understand that it is not protesting what we do not like that counts. It is choosing what we do which, ultimately, changes things. ”

- Joan Chittister

“ I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is. ”

- Rumi

“ You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems. ”

- Mark Victor Hansen

“ All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying. ”

- Richard Barnfield

“ Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting. ”

- Robert Frost

“ I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it. ”

- Anthony Stewart Head

“ How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ”

- St. Teresa of Avila

“ Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. ”

- Bill Clinton

“ Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope. ”

- Pete Holiday

“ I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. ”

- Connie Mack

“ One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. ”

- Robert Collier

“ Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling. ”

- Nathaniel Branden

“ Success depends on our using, and not opposing… ”

- Thomas Troward

“ The Moon is opposing Jupiter. Don't get involved, it's their problem. ”

- Jim Critchfield

“ Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference, … a oneness and integration of the two opposing forces. Then the civil war is finished, and your energies are ready for your struggle with the world. ”

- Frederick Salomon Perls

“ Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren. ”

- Mitch McConnell

“ Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling. ”

- Nathaniel Branden

“ To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 't is a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To be, or not to be, — that is the question: — whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them. ”

- William Shakespeare
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