Opponents Quotes
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Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation. (Quote by - Craig L. Thomas)
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue. (Quote by - Boyle Roche)
Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents. (Quote by - Lawrence Taylor)
Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish. (Quote by - Lorrie Fair)
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent. (Quote by - Sue Wicks)
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents. (Quote by - Imran Khan)
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. (Quote by - Francis Maitland Balfour)
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states. (Quote by - Herbert Croly)
I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed. (Quote by - Floyd Abrams)
Conqueror the self and you will conquer the opponent. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. (Quote by - Harry Shearer)
That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. (Quote by - Piers Anthony)
Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people. (Quote by - William L. Jenkins)
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service. (Quote by - Eddie Bernice Johnson)
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. (Quote by - Thomas Malthus)
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. (Quote by - Frederick Scott Oliver)
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Don't trust the smile of your opponent. (Quote by - Babylonian Proverb)
In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents. (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission. (Quote by - Pat Riley)
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Quote by - Max Planck)
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. (Quote by - Manfred von Richthofen)
Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure. (Quote by - Chen Shui-bian)
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for. (Quote by - Joshua A. Tucker)
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions. (Quote by - James Joyce)
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
Forget your opponents; always play against par. (Quote by - Sam Snead)
The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result. (Quote by - Sadaharu Oh)
Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38. (Quote by - David Crane)
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. (Quote by - Bobby Knight)
I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked. (Quote by - Alexis Arguello)
For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. (Quote by - Jim Sensenbrenner)
A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds. (Quote by - David Horowitz)
The only one who can beat me is me. (Quote by - Michael Johnson)
The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters. (Quote by - Cus D'Amato)
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess when my opponent says of it, That piece cannot be moved. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent. (Quote by - Marvin Gaye)
Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up. (Quote by - Edmund Rouse)
Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. (Quote by - Max Planck)
I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. (Quote by - Lyndon B. Johnson)
I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit. (Quote by - Sue Wicks)
Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere. (Quote by - Morihei Ueshiba)
I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair. (Quote by - Andre Agassi)
I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true. (Quote by - Helen Suzman)
Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left. (Quote by - Mort Kondracke)
I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace. (Quote by - King Hussein I)
My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it. (Quote by - Rob Simmons)
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face. (Quote by - Sidney J. Harris)
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it. (Quote by - Theodor Herzl)
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. (Quote by - Dwight Whitney Morrow)
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. (Quote by - Orhan Pamuk)
But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better. (Quote by - Daniela Hantuchova)
To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy. (Quote by - Cus D'Amato)
But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point. (Quote by - Payne Stewart)
If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel. (Quote by - Mark Russell)
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. (Quote by - Robert Kennedy)
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. (Quote by - James A. Froude)
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed. (Quote by - Rahm Emanuel)
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Quote by - Max Planck)
Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible? (Quote by - Warren Christopher)
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. (Quote by - Meg Greenfield)
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. (Quote by - Jacques Derrida)
The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable. (Quote by - Paul Weyrich)
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
Don't divide the world into "them" and "us." Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.
There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done. (Quote by - Jason Kidd)
Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world. (Quote by - Dennis Hastert)
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. (Quote by - Bob Riley)
You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. (Quote by - Wynton Marsalis)
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not. (Quote by - Thomas J. Sargent)
