Opponents Quotes
832 Opponents quotes by 548 unique authors
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If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from…
— Pope Francis
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The best way to get a move to work is to make it so uncomfortable that the opponent gives it to you to stop the…
— Carlson Gracie
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The meaning of the directions in kata is not well understood, and frequently mistakes are made in the interpretation of kata movements. In extreme cases,…
— Kenwa Mabuni
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The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't…
— Ronda Rousey
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Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat,…
— Rorion Gracie
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People ask if I hate my opponents; I don't. I love them. They are the ones that actually make me bring the best I have.
— Renzo Gracie
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Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's…
— Caroline Wozniacki
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There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.
— Caroline Wozniacki
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My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.
— Joe Kyrillos
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Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it…
— Wyndham Lewis
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The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone…
— Sadaharu Oh
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The deeper you get into the playoffs, obviously the better the opponent is. Which means they'll be better defensively, they'll rebound better, they don't turn…
— Eric Snow
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The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing…
— Joseph Sobran
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Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension that oozes from…
— Paul Gigot
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Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need…
— David Brin
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In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and…
— James Joyce
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