Opposition Quotes

If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition. — Ben Morgan

Illuminate the opposition. — Adam Weishaupt

Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition. — Napoleon Hill

He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces — Ron Atkinson

If you are seeking to obey the Lord, expect opposition. Expect obstacles. Expect difficulties. But also expect God to see you through — Greg Laurie

When you star arises, your cloud of opposition awakens — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it. — Napoleon Hill

True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to it. — John Andreas Widtsoe

I love opposition that has convictions. — Frederick The Great

There's eternal opposition between yin and yang.
No third party at all, but treason occurs sometimes. — Toba Beta

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings. — Stuart J. Russell

Resistance, in the form of opposition or lack of support from others is often a sign telling you to move forward and on to bigger and better things. — Miya Yamanouchi

Still, slander against the president and first lady continued to fill the columns of opposition papers. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. — G.K. Chesterton

It's all in the opposition of the thumbs. For all we know, whales sing in three act plays - but they can't write them down. — Bronwen Wallace

You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do. — Alain Vigneault

This is the best Man United have played in Europe this season and, conversely, the opposition has been excellent. — Ron Atkinson

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other. — Al Franken

Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition. — Jeremy Grantham

Men like him became stubborn with opposition, because their convictions were all they had. — Abraham Verghese

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes. — Robert Torricelli

The opposition Prevailingwind Party led by Alfredo Traficcone — Jasper Fforde

When developing a business story, keep in mind that the opposition character (shadow) is just as important as the audience character (hero) is. — Luis Cubero

Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government. — Saul Landau

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?' — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Assad's regime helped ISIS grow by attacking other opposition forces and rarely targeting ISIS. — Richard Engel

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge. — Jacob Bronowski

Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule. — Terry Goodkind

This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe. — Elbert Hubbard

In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn't have won. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development — David Cortright

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns. — Juan Williams

If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them. — Terry Eagleton

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. — Archibald Alexander Hodge

Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark. — Matshona Dhliwayo

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. — Frank Herbert

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen

The presence is not deleted before the vacuum is cleared before a redoubling of presence that erases the opposition of the presence and absence — Jean Baudrillard

It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well. — Charles Kennedy

Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors. — Marty Rubin

Every victory and success that God will give you will make others jealous; it will cause hatred and opposition as well — Sunday Adelaja

We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard. — Marcus Garvey

His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are. — Walter Lippmann

The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him. — John Hagee

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition. — E.W. Howe

In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there. — Jeb Bush

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right. — Mahathir Mohamad

Women should unite upon a platform of opposition to the teaching and aim of that ever most unscrupulous enemy of freedom
the Church. — Matilda Joslyn Gage

You have opposition to love?"
"Not opposition so much as skepticism. I make it a practice not to believe in things I cannot see. — Sarah MacLean

Your life oppositions will position or disposition you in the best or worst way depending how you position or disposition your oppositions. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness. — Bryant McGill

It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition. — Elton Trueblood

And who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference? — Emily Bronte

There may be blasphemy and opposition to your calling, but you must continue fulfilling your calling — Sunday Adelaja

There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it! — Donald Trump

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score. — Earl Weaver

We spend far too much of our lives at work to have it be in opposition to the person we desire to be. — Scott Hammerle

The hand of opposition is never exposed. — Chancellor Williams

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition — Bill Johnson

There are challenges and opposition, everywhere! But we will fight the fight of faith! — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition. — Benjamin Franklin

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up. — Alex Pareene

Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith. — Pat Robertson

If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body. — Alexander Hamilton

In a political fight, when you've got nothing in favour of your side, start a row in the opposition camp. — Huey Long

The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition! — Adrian Rogers

If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition. — Jean Piaget

You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle. — Shannon L. Alder

There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing. — Sebastian Coe

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition. — Vernon Howard

Anyone who ain't family is opposition — Vinnie Paz

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. — Joseph Stalin

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi

These bridges support revelations in opposition to repudiations and personal testimonies challenging thematic stereotypes. Although — MariJo Moore

If my own brother challenged the faith of millions, I would oppose him. — Jerome Lawrence

In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo. — Jeff Fitzgerald

You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket ... the stars here are in opposition to you ... can't you feel it? ... Let us take you home. — Amy A. Bartol

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto. — Donald Tusk

During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig Von Mises

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism' ... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition. — John Gresham Machen

When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off. — Jamie Carragher

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself. — Aristotle.

We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition. — Ivan Konev

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority. — King Hussein I

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides. — Ricky Ponting

My job is to be your loyal opposition. — John Scalzi

Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God. — Craig Groeschel

Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up! — Israelmore Ayivor

When we are accomplishing the good, the greatest opposition comes. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Oppression is opposition. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Joy is not an alternative to opposition; it is part of a compound that includes opposition. — Bruce C. Hafen

Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation — Leon Trotsky

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people. — Jonathan Edwards

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless. — David Gower

The most difficult part in executing a successful breakout is handling pressure from the opposition and completing a good first pass. — Ryan Walter

Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition. — Franz Beckenbauer

I am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly ... And that goes for the opposition as well. — Calvin Trillin

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have. — Peter Blair Henry

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan. — Jean Rostand