Quotes About Opponent

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

An attack is proof that one is out of control. Never run away from any kind of challenge, but do not try to suppress or control an opponent unnaturally

In Aikido we never attack. An attack is proof that one is out of control. Never run away from any kind of challenge, but do not try to suppress or control an opponent unnaturally. Let attackers come any way they like and then blend with them. Never chase after opponents. Redirect each attack and get firmly behind it.

Now I'm not sayin' just to be funny, but I'm fightin' Ernie because he needs the money.

It takes pride and a tiger's drive to build up the confidence, the ego, the power to defeat an opponent in the ring. It

The mountain was teaching me a hard lesson: camaraderie is a noble thing, but in the end death is an opponent each of us would face in solitude.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

One cannot successfully face an enemy while one is questioning one's own worth, and presuming the enemy is worth more.

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.

Banning not only confines one physically, it imprisons one's spirit. it induces a kind of psychological claustrophobia that makes one yearn not only for freedom of movement but spiritual escape...This insidious effect of bans was that at a certain point one began to think that the opponent was not without but within.

No matter what the problem is, no matter where it is, no matter whom it concerns, you have no one to change but yourself, and you have neither opponent nor helper in bringing about the change within yourself.

We have met the enemy, and they are ours.

Christmas Gift Suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

The despicable modern resort to playing the victim card or charging one's opponent with being "phobic" in one way or another was not for Paul. If

The two men who were fencing were De Vigne and a smaller, slighter fellow; the one calm, cool, steady, and never at a disadvantage, the other, skilful indeed, but too hot, eager, and rapid: for in fencing, whether with the foils or the tongue, the grand secret is to be cool, since, in proportion to your tranquillity, grows your opponent's exasperation!

personal attacks on your opponent undermine your credibility with the court.

Your move should be determined by your strengths, not your opponent's expectations.' Darcy's smile deepened as he warmed to her allusion to fencing. 'Always move to your advantage.

And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship.

It is a sin to hurt someone, so by avoiding violence we do not sin ourselves and by stopping an opponent from hurting us, we prevent him from sinning.

Whilst in the process of losing all his money, Cardano noticed that his opponent had marked the cards. Whereupon he leapt up, slashed his opponent across the face with his dagger and grabbed the money. Outwitting his host's spear-wielding servants, he fled into the night-shrouded maze of the streets, eventually falling into a canal. [Footnote: It is interesting to note that Cardano may well have been rector of the University of Padua at the time.]