Opposed Quotes
948 quotes by 792 authors
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It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I'm fundamentally opposed to. I'm very sad my party…
— Unknown Author
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The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless…
— Barack Obama
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Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.
— Barack Obama
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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth…
— Mark Twain
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The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed to influence other…
— Henry Morgentaler
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I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions.
— R. J. Reynolds
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The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads…
— Elizabeth S. Anderson
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If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is…
— George Whitefield
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I'm personally opposed to a deep tan because I like to feel blond all over.
— Marilyn Monroe
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While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is…
— Nick Offerman
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Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make…
— Cathy Freeman
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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up…
— Ernest Hemingway
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This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I…
— Peter Costello
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In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the…
— Richard Leakey
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I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like…
— Drake
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large…
— Susan Sontag
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Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common…
— Pope John Paul II
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Although the Knight is generally considered to be on a par with the Bishop in strength, the latter piece is somehat stronger in the majority…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have…
— Mark Twain
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