Quotes About Opposition

The warring conflict in man between the intellect and the libido shall never be twinned.

Without perspective, everything gets blown out of proportion. We catastrophize. The loss of privilege becomes harsh persecution. Opposition becomes hatred. And every legal or electoral setback becomes cause for anguish and despair. In short, we evaluate and extrapolate without putting God into the equation.

I think NOT!" Aunt Esther bellowed, and

Every term of opprobrium that Álvares hurled at Magellan strengthened

Therefore to sum up, when we only visualize the positive, we neglect the occult fact that eventually the universe will pull the pendulum in the opposite direction, thereby taking away our goal, unless we do something to counteract the opposing force! The solution is not to wage war upon the Opposing Force, not to exorcise it, banish it, or resist it, but to encounter it, and to find a way to integrate it into ourselves.

For every ten jokes - thou hast got an hundred enemies...

Left unsaid was that unity required a common enemy. One box in which to collect all their anger; one straw man to wear the hats of everything they feared.

Mi piace il contrasto. È solamente nei contrasti che l'uomo si sente più forte, superiore al proprio corpo. Senza contrasti la vita è banale.

My problem with democracy is that it doesn't exist. I'm not opposed to it. And I'm not opposed to the tooth fairy either.

Against the odds, they refuse to succeed.

I am pleased to have an enemy who is not symbolic.

They refuse to credit my tale; they impute my act to the influence of daemons; they account me an example of the doom me to death and infamy. Have I power to escape this evil? If I have, be sure I will exert it. I will not accept evil at their hand, when I am entitled to good; I will suffer only when I cannot elude suffering.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

My only enemy is time.

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Let's salute our enemies. That makes at least one happy. (Saluons nos ennemis. - Ca fait au moins un heureux.)

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.

How are you to get up the sympathies of the audience in a legitimate manner, if there isn't a little man contending against a big one?

If great criminals told the truth—which, being great criminals, they do not—they would very rarely tell of their struggles against the crime. Their struggles are towards it. They buffet with opposing waves, to gain the bloody shore, not to recede from it.

Mr. Pickwick was on the point of inquiring, with great abhorrence of the man's cold-blooded villainy, how Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz, who was counsel for the opposite party, dared to presume to tell Mr. Serjeant Snubbin, who was counsel for him, that it was a fine morning,

Yes, sir!' from one half. 'No, sir!' from the other. 'Of