Pitted Quotes

26 Pitted quotes by 24 unique authors

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I… — Douglas Hofstadter
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition. — Margaret J. Wheatley
America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion… — Mother Teresa
All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest… — Steven Morrissey
Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better? — Elizabeth Berkley
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and efficiently… — Yvon Chouinard
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody. — Derek Bailey
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills. — James N. Frey
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear against… — Reuben Archer Torrey
The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of… — Mother Teresa
Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history. Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark...… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a… — Karen Armstrong
You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is… — Jay Leno
My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest. — Allison Pearson
...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums. — Steve Martin
As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made… — William Trevor
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.… — Boris Pasternak
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a… — Carson McCullers
As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work… — Bell Hooks
I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred… — Christopher Pike
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating… — David Mitchell
The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total… — Mikhail Gorbachev
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the… — Judith Butler
TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in… — Ambrose Bierce
God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil — Epictetus

Who Wrote These Pitted Quotes

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