Opposing Quotes

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Love, Friendship, Sympathy

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
Stephen Fry

Daily, Human, Means

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
Nikita Khrushchev

Together, Two, Away

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.
Christopher Lasch

Family, Society, Cannot

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
William J. Clinton

Strength, Wisdom, Values

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.
Hayden Fry

Family, Great, Team

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Jay Leno

Life, Today, Decision

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
Robert Collier

Moving, Different, Two

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.
Brett Favre

Adversity, Last, She

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
Matthew Lesko

Strange, Public, Censorship

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Whatever, Call, Policy

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.
Michael Pollan

Nature, Progress, Themselves

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.
Otto Schily

Hate, Play, Why

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence.
Cynthia McKinney

Silence, Why, Clear

If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views.
Robert Casey

Country, Open, Party

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.
Eugenio Montale

Life, Good, Struggle

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

Bad, Free, Idea

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.
Simon Greenleaf

Law, Face, Party

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.
Ramman Kenoun

Enemy, Soldier, Commander

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.
Georg Simmel

Life, Great, Another

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.
Dick Schaap

Sports, Wanted, Loved

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?
Robert Walpole

True, Both, Either

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

Ignorance, Research, Republican

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

Between, Order, Bring

I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed.
Roger Clemens

Hard, Wish, Tell

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
Dick Morris

Marriage, Gay, Win

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.
Nick Rahall

Life, Time, Cannot

There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.
Jose Maria Aznar

Win, Fighting, Possible

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.
Bill Ayers

War, Country, Majority

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.
Howard Staunton

May, Before, Stand

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