Top 646 Opposed Quotes

Yes, the people I draw don’t have a wide variety of looks. Every now and then I’ll spruce it up, like a woman will be wearing a two-piece suit as opposed to a one-piece, or a man will not be wearing a tie; he’ll just have a collar.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960’s. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.

I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.

That’s why people read books. You get to have the real conversation, as opposed to the pseudo-conversations we have in everyday life.

It’s quite different to do a vocal performance, opposed to a performance where you are seen, because in some ways, you don’t need to worry about what you look like – you don’t have to sit in a makeup chair for a long time!

I am opposed to autobiographies, mainly because most autobiographies lie.

I know that my look is more ‘toothpaste model’ as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles.

I’m not opposed to comics on the Internet. It’s just not interesting to me.

When you’re entertaining, and I still haven’t accomplished this because I’m always stuck in the kitchen, but spend enough time actually with your guests. It allows you to chill with your friends and be an actual, normal human as opposed to being in the kitchen cooking all the time.

The game is changing with songs like ‘Earned It’ as opposed to it changing me.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who’s up and who’s down and all that nonsense as opposed to what’s actually done.

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

If I die and am worth $50 million as opposed to $3 billion, it is really not important.

I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different… totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

I opposed bad policies like any responsible citizen and business can. The carbon tax and the mining tax were both bad policies that, combined, worked to make Australia more over-regulated and less cost competitive.

You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.

I hate it when people don’t recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men’s work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal – men’s writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

I am opposed to abortion on demand, and I am opposed to the 1967 Act in Britain being transferred to the north.

By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there’s no confusion about who’s to blame: you are.

A lot of other people have used the talk box but have used it as a sound as opposed to actually making the guitar enunciate words.

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the ‘Twilight Zone,’ the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.

If you are opposed to immigration or support strictly punitive immigration measures, you cannot even start a conversation about other issues with most Latino voters.

I wanted to stay on TV because I’ve got kids who are school-aged, so I get to see them most days as opposed to going away for movies months and months at a time.

I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.

As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we’re in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that’s what my music tries to convey to all the listeners – try to cultivate it every day.

I just think it’s so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.

I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I’ve been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn’t have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.

Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base – essential in any successful revolution – but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide.

I don’t think I have advice for female directors as opposed to male directors. I think all first-time directors should try and be as prepared as they possibly can, because it’s hard!

My art gets called political, as opposed to my intending it to be political. I think that’s something that happens with black artists or marginalized voices trying to speak truth. Because there are things in the status quo to speak out against, speaking out against them will inherently be political.

I would say, people use labels all the time, but I’m kind of a traditional Catholic: Personally, I’m opposed to abortion, and personally, I’m opposed to the death penalty.

I always find it much easier when there’s one person whose vision you’re following, as opposed to many people.

As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being – you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married.

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

We were able and we had a plan to launch nuclear test in 1984, but then President General Zia had opposed the move.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.

I am strongly opposed to any form of amnesty, including, especially, executive amnesty.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

First, I was opposed to gay marriage because it seemed like one more way that gays were wanting to assimilate. When I realized the Christian right was so opposed to it, as well as tyrannical governments in Africa and Russia, I thought, ‘It must be a good thing to fight for.’

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

My party was the only party that opposed the bifurcation of the state in Parliament, and I was suspended from the House along with the other MP from my party. TDP supported and voted for bifurcation, as did the Congress and BJP. Every party barring mine voted.

People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That’s what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.