Quotes About Opposition

Someone is writing a poem. Words are being set down in a force field. It's as if the words themselves have magnetic charges; they veer together or in polarity, they swerve against each other.

What I wanted, frankly, was someone who would argue me out of the things that I was thinking.

As a rich property owner says 'Bolsheviks' - as an earnest Communist says 'Capitalists! ' - as a good housewife says 'Blackbeetles' - so did Miss Williams say 'Men!' From her spinster's, governess's life, there rose up a blast of fierce feminism. Nobody hearing her speak could doubt that to Miss Williams Men were the Enemy!

They say that a director always makes the same film. I try to make, as François Truffaut said, the next film in opposition to the one that came before. I'm not sure if I succeed. To put it another way, I agree with the auteur theory, but I don't consider myself an auteur. I'm more of an artisan, a craftsman.

I am deeply concerned that, without peace and a two-state solution, the Jewish and democratic nature of Israel is in danger. That's why I have opposed Israel's settlement policy since 1973, and that's why I have favored a two-state solution since 1967.

Nope! Not now!" Taz agreed, letting them hurry him along.

Man's life is a warfare against the malice of men.

The two men -- Fray and Malkin -- were standing near each other. They were not unarmed. They were quite seriously not unarmed. Both men were carrying -- or at least aiming -- what could only be categorised as small artillery pieces: two bulky gas-powered spinguns, so heavy that they had to be strapped to their bodies via thick leather girdles. Malkin was aiming at the angels, more or less.

I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

Peter Thiel and I disagree on 99 percent of things.

I never said finish the Congress, because the opposition is needed... I do not have such petty imaginations.

Prince Philip is very contrary. He challenges everything.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's what I got the most out of this year. I know what other coaches like to do.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.

You're never going to catch me agreeing with anything that Bruce Rauner says, given the things he's done in this state, trying to pit the city of Chicago against the rest of Illinois - I'll never agree with anything Bruce Rauner says.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout.

I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.