Quotes About Opposition

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.

And Paul saw how futile were any efforts of his to change any smallest bit of this. He had thought to oppose the jihad within himself, but the jihad would be. His legions would rage out from Arrakis even without him. They needed only the legend he already had become.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented. The military force which is denied an external target always turns against its own people.

They demonstrate how motives of bureaucracy are directly opposed to the need for adapting to change. Adaptability is a prime requirement for life to survive.

Mohiam had been fond of explaining this particular error to her student, Jessica. "If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it." "And even I, your student, have made it," Jessica whispered to herself.

Cuando una criatura se ha desarrollado de un modo determinado, elegirá morir antes que cambiar a su opuesto.

The moons will be your friends, the sun your enemy.

Give them nothing, but take from them everything.

Music without the ebb and flow would be like watching a film with only good guys in it.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

Itsen ja maailman välisessä kamppailussa on parempi olla maailman aseenkantaja.

You belong to the people I have to combat, and you're very comfortable among them, you're even in love with the student, or if you don't love him you do at least prefer him to your husband.

Schaam je, hier tegenover mijn cliënt! Je ondermijnt ook het vertrouwen dat híj in mij stelt.

52. W walce pomi?dzy tob? a ?wiatem sekunduj ?wiatu.

I don't think Albert Einstein could have devised an equation to guide the leader of the free world during the wildly tumultuous post-9/11 realities without a modicum of help from the opposition party and the vast majority of the print and electronic media.

I always will be the villain, no matter what. I don't know why.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.

I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

They were willing to do anything to stop me.

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever necessary to destroy him, even if it meant damaging the country in the process.

It's a war of wills out there on the court. You have to have a stronger will than your opponent, and every guy on your team has to feel that same way against the guy he's guarding.