It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
Mary Cheney

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

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.
Frederick Scott Oliver

My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
Shane Warne

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
Robert Vaughn

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
Maya Lin

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.
Michael Enzi

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Friedrich Schiller

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud

Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
George Eliot

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.
Mel Martinez

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
David Bohm

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.
Jon Stewart

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
Peter DeFazio