Opposition Quotes
679 Opposition quotes by 546 unique authors
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I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the…
— John Ortberg
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I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid…
— Franz Beckenbauer
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My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.
— Georges Pompidou
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It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends.…
— Bidzina Ivanishvili
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I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was…
— Bidzina Ivanishvili
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I grew up in a very difficult country, a very oppressive situation because of the Somoza dictatorship. My family was in opposition to Somoza; Somoza…
— Gioconda Belli
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John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be…
— Thomas Mallon
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Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening…
— Mel Martinez
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Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
— Frank Harris
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result…
— John Acton
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Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be…
— Harry Bridges
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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently…
— Georg Cantor
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These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil…
— Ethan A. Hitchcock
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You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.
— David Gower
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
— Patricia Ireland
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In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their…
— John Burns
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I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I…
— Anne Campbell
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I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all…
— George William Norris
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The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively,…
— Ali Abdullah Saleh
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We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and…
— Joschka Fischer
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For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of…
— Roman Jakobson
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If they think they have issues with the president not doing enough for the poor now, wait and see what happens if the opposition takes…
— Cornel West
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In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.
— George Osborne
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Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it…
— Kay Bailey Hutchison
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You must never underestimate your opposition.
— John Scarlett
Who Wrote These Opposition Quotes
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