Quotes About Opposition

When you and I set out to create anything—art, commerce, science, love—or to advance in the direction of a higher, nobler version of ourselves, we uncork from the universe, ineluctably, an equal and opposite reaction.

Resistance knows we're about to beat it and it hits the panic button. It hits with everything it's got.

The Bible would not have told us to take up the whole armor of God in order to withstand evil if evil could have been withstood without doing that. To "stand against" literally means to stand in front of and in opposition to the forces and plans of evil.

Lord, I praise Your name. You are almighty and far above all things. Your presence in my life is greater than anything I fear. I know faith in You and in Your Word will conquer all opposition in my life. With Your help, I will not dwell on my problems, but instead I will praise You and Your name continually.

All the weapons of hate and cruelty cannot stand against God's love. The spiritually blind and intentionally evil try to oppose it, but they cannot ultimately win. That's because all creation was formed and is sustained by God

Lord, I pray You would strengthen my faith so that I will not give up praying in the heat of the battle of opposition from the enemy. I realize the very next prayer I pray may be the one to bring total deliverance from the strongholds the enemy is trying to erect in my life. Enable me to stand strong in prayer and worship, giving thanks for Your presence and delivering power.

Barry Goldwater's opposition to the Civil Rights Act, which made Jim Crow voter-suppression laws illegal, was the defining moment for the modern Republican Party.

Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. —Omarosa Manigault

A year or so into the Trump presidency, it occurred to me that so many of the most strident voices against Trump were those I'd worked with in the Bush campaigns:

We oppose the sons of darkness by letting our Light shine, not by taking up the sword. It is not the sword that conquers wickedness but the Truth shining in the hearts of the Children of Light.

Sometimes a friend is a person who shares your enemies.

The emotions do not deserve being put into opposition with "intelligence." The emotions are themselves a higher order of intelligence. —O. Hobart Mowrer

A Divine Feminine symbol acts to deconstruct patriarchy, which is one of the reasons there's so much resistance, even hysteria, surrounding the idea of Goddess. The idea of Goddess is so powerfully "other," so vividly female, it comes like a crowbar shattering the lock patriarchy holds on divine imagery.

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind.

A victorious army opposed to a routed one, is as a pound's weight placed in the scale against a single grain.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them.

to be well-fed while the enemy is famished: — this is the art of husbanding one's strength.

WANG XI Opponents cannot exhaust you.

holding a position from which the enemy is trying to dislodge you, or perhaps, as Tu Yu says, when he is trying to entice you into a

fallar en conocer la situación de los adversarios por economizar en aprobar gastos para investigar y estudiar a la oposición es extremadamente inhumano y no es típico de un buen jefe militar, de un consejero de gobierno, ni de un gobernante victorioso.

Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans; the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces; the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field; and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.

If you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths, and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.

His brain might know that she was all wrong, but his dick kept pointing in her direction.

I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the antithesis of the sharp painful struggles of lovers. Lovers fight with knives and whips, husbands and wives poisoned marshmallows, sleeping pills, and wet blankets.