Quotes About Opposition

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

There's only one room on this planet for one side to be dominant, Todd.

Hmm," Mistress Coyle hmms.

When luck ain't with you, it's against you.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

One unionist politician likened this custody arrangement to keeping 'a python in a paper bag'.

The point of all of this is control. First you must have control of yourself. Then you can gain control of your surroundings. Then you gain control of whoever stands against you. This is the Lethani.

Hay un montón de hombres que no se proponen otra cosa que tumbarme. Y solo hay uno que intenta todo lo contrario. Asegurarse de que tengo los pies firmes en el suelo, para que no me caiga.

The point of all of this is control. First you must have control of yourself. Then you can gain control of your surroundings. Then you gain control of whoever stands against you.

El terror que ahora le atenazaba era el de ignorar algo de sí mismo y se trataba de una especie opuesta a la anterior, ya que de este no podía escapar, sino que debía hacerle frente.

Bak?n ama öyle s?k görülen bir ÅŸey ki. Ä°yi olan ne varsa ölüyor, çünkü zaman?n ak??? iyinin kar??s?nda. Ve bu ak?? önüne ne ç?karsa ezip geçiyor.

whatever you think, think the opposite

?nsan bir kez kendine kar?? olmaya ba?lad? m?, ba?ka herkesin de kar?? oldu?unu dü?ünür.

stranded in the awkward position of being against the ones who were against, which was a lonely place to be for a person who was also against the ones who were for.

The rampant, totally mystifying force of contradiction. I understand now that each fact is nullified by the next fact, that each thought engenders an equal and opposite thought. Impossible to say anything without reservation.

In an online class (part of the MasterClass series) on the topic, the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin says that the most foundational and basic advice for story construction is to present a formidable obstacle.

The radical opposition came from the provinces. The mutinies were age-related, but they were not as simple as old-versus-young. Both older workers, who had been marginalized as their skills lost value, and young people, entering a bleak job market, turned to the extremes.

Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false.

Something as normal as a concern over what others think of me, or what will happen to me if others oppose me, rises to a level of such immediate importance that my actions are more shaped by that concern than they are about the huge and transcendent glories of the life-altering grace of the gospel.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

In opposing them, we wish to help them realize their essential goodness. To oppose oppressors is to embrace oppressors.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

Cuando uno les demuestra a los demás que están equivocados, los demás lo odian a uno por ello.

Armed incursions can in principle be militarily opposed. Migration is in the end a more powerful force because it is ultimately irresistible: laws that nations introduce to limit it are ultimately unenforceable.