Opposing Quotes

218 quotes by 199 authors

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints. — Joe Bradley
When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more… — Vladimir Lenin
It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render… — Criss Jami
Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged… — William E. Gladstone
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow… — Hayden Fry
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions.… — Stephen Fry
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… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced… — Brett Favre
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… — Nikita Khrushchev
What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to… — Madeleine M. Kunin
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they… — Christopher Lasch
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at… — Jay Leno
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
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction. — Ryan Reynolds
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. — Rumi
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron. — Francis Collins
So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run… — Annie Dillard
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with… — George Orwell
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune… — Eugene V. Debs

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