Top 115 Opposing Quotes

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

I think if you are a player going to Duke, you have to expect a little bit to be not liked when you go and play in opposing team’s gyms. Like, when I signed with Duke out of high school, I knew it would be playing in hell where they hate you. That’s what I loved about it.

There are so many good players in the NBA, and I just want to be at the top of the talent pool. I want opposing coaches and players to fear me.

These protesters, opposing me or our church, they’re protesting the eternal Word of God, and guess what – they’re not going to be successful in toppling the Word of God.

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We will be able to move the ball down the field with team decisions and playmaking versus constantly thinking about how the opposing forces are moving the ball.

I believe the most important thing for the defender is to take the ball away from the opposing team, no matter what, and not to allow any space or give any occasions for opponents to score goals.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Hawks and doves have long found common ground opposing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states.

Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another’s biases and loyalties that they have even settled on two opposing categories: ‘panda huggers’ versus ‘panda sluggers.’

We’re fighting for community energy initiatives, warmer homes and crucial flood defences – and fiercely opposing the Government’s assault on renewables.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

One of the most horrifying and surprising evolutions we have witnessed among our widespread campus network is the rapid movement away from tolerating opposing ideas and respectful debate to the deployment of obscene bully tactics from the left.

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 entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They’d never seen anything like it.

In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping.

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

O.P.N. has always been about reaching for some kind of liminal state in which opposing aesthetic forces become entangled and confused and equal.

From opposing unfair trade deals to fighting for a fair financial system, Hillary Clinton has shown she puts working families first. She knows as president that her first job will be creating jobs for the middle class. I am proud to endorse her today because I know she will keep Ohio moving forward.

When I spend a lot of time reading, discussing, or thinking about an area, I’ll often really appreciate why a strong viewpoint is true and come to very firm conclusions. But if I am later exposed to a strong opposing view, I frequently find this countervailing view persuasive as well.

In politics there is plenty of division, hostility, tribalism, posturing; but there’s almost no curiosity. Instead of wondering why someone holds a certain set of beliefs and asking how they came to them, it is easier to gather a mob and silence opposing viewpoints by force.

Over the years, increasing partisanship has led many members of Congress reflexively to speak in favor of any military action launched by presidents of their own party while withholding support to presidents of the opposing party.

I don’t personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

There’s been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

In Castling, the King must be moved first, or before the Rook is quitted. If the Rook be quitted before the King is touched, the opposing player may demand that the move of the Rook shall stand without the Castling being completed.

Ibrahimovic is certainly a great player, but during a match, I don’t waste any thoughts on who is opposing me, and you never have any fears on the pitch.

There will certainly be times when Merkel and I will have opposing viewpoints. Just the fact that government work adheres to a different set of prerogatives than a party does makes conflicts unavoidable.

We are used to the whistles of the opposing fans, but when we are booed by our own fans, it’s hard to live with.

In a healthy, normal society, people can disagree with one another, even have diametrically opposing views, and this does not at all mean that they must hate one another. The Polish authorities, however, have made the division of Poles their primary task.

I stand with crime victims, members of the law enforcement community, and advocates for justice in opposing a repeal of the death penalty.

Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.

The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character’s soul.

Let us continue to reach out in godly love to all homosexuals who want deliverance, while opposing at the threshold every attempt of the militant homosexuals to represent their lifestyle as ‘normal,’ and to impose it on us and our children.

Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage alone would be a sufficient guarantee. It is the conflict of opposing interests which renders it the most difficult work of man.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

Every play, I’m trying to get as many shots on the opposing team as I can, so when you get to the fourth quarter, they obviously don’t want to be on the field anymore.

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 up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself – or the opposing teams have given me.

I find the game mentally challenging and really enjoy the chess match that occurs every week between the offense and the opposing defense.

I’ve never been on the road and got cheered for, or even one of my teammates get cheered for by the opposing team.

I’ve learned that if you don’t have anyone opposing your work, if you don’t have anyone thinking, ‘Man, that should be me. I could do that. I should have thought of that, or they must have teams of people doing it for them,’ your work simply isn’t reaching enough people to be relevant.

Our democracy only works when the official opposition does its job of opposing the government of the day and offers a clear alternative vision for our country, including giving a voice to the voiceless.

There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists – and the rest of us – must stop giving equal time to things that don’t have an opposing side.

Despite the occasional high decibel level, ‘The Group’ is not a shout fest. I don’t simply want panelists with opposing opinions trying to out-shout one another.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find – well, mind-expanding, really.

We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Mr Corbyn, I accuse you of failing to do your duty by not opposing in any real sense our government on the most important issue of our times – Brexit.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country… I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

Far too many people believe that they are owed some kind of ‘safe space’ from opposing ideas, and the fact is, that just isn’t true – and we shouldn’t allow people to say that it is true without correcting them.