Quotes About Opposition

Second-baseman Eddie Stanky spoke for the whole team when he shouted at the opposing dugout: "Listen, you yellow-bellied cowards, why don't you yell at somebody who can answer back?

He was a fireman. And what did she do? She went around lightning fires, while he tried to put them out.

the motto of all consciousness is determinatio est negatio.

When, with growing self-awareness, he experiences his relation to an opponent, and the sacrificed realizes his identity with the sacrificiant, and vice versa, the hitherto cosmic opposition of light and darkness is experienced as an opposition between human or divine twins, and the long succession of fraternal feuds in mythology opens with the squabbles between Osiris and Set, Baal and Mot.7

If he was destined to oppose Tigerclaw, then so be it. Fireheart was ready for the challenge.

Reason and instinct have an inveterate habit of cancelling each other out.

In some communities young men who hesitated to volunteer received packages containing petticoats, or were seized by boisterous mobs and thrown into ponds.7 Thousands of persons indifferent to enlistment, and many who were downright opposed to it, were swept into the ranks in 1861 by the force of articulate popular pressure.

We do not undertake to quarrel with the laws of nature. Our ignorance oftentimes puts us in opposition to them, and a very expensive position we find it to be, because they never yield, and in the end, of course, we must.

This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them.

He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way.

Archway is where the post-war dream of the urban motorway died in the teeth of local opposition and the inability of the designers to answer basic traffic management questions.

No!" Jimmy protested.

This is the intelligence technique known as "coat trailing," dangling a potential recruit before the opposition in the hope that, if recruited, he or she can then be put to work as a double agent.

Rudi listed his objections to communism: "The exaggerations in the press, the primitive tone of some articles, the boring speeches filled with jargon, the arrogant dismissal of opposing views, the ham-fisted behaviour towards intellectuals, whom you isolate instead of winning over, insulting opponents instead of disarming them with logic and recruiting them.

As a mark of opposition, many wore paper clips in their lapels. The paper clip was a Norwegian invention; the little twist of metal became a symbol of unity, a society binding together against oppression.

The president has substantial unilateral authority in trade, so political opposition may not prevent him from carrying through on some of his promises.

I didn't want to influence his choice too much, since my support for any one candidate could easily be misrepresented as opposition to another.

Foreign officials joined in the criticism.

that Greenspan opposed it, "so I didn't really pursue it.

but acknowledged his opposition to the idea.

But Sheila came very close to characterizing anyone not fully in support of her plan as an opponent of foreclosure relief in general.

The callers seemed to believe that voting in opposition to their personal views for political reasons was perfectly natural.

however, Greenspan remained firmly opposed.

You may notice when arguing with someone on the left that every time you begin to make a point, that leftist begins shouting