Opposing Quotes

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Usually when the opposing team does well, the crowd quiets down. All I began to hear was a chant 'L-S-U, L-S-U.' It got louder and louder and louder. It was the loudest I've ever heard a stadium.

Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.

The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players

Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.

The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.

We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots.

I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.

two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.

When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance.

Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious.

Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace.

It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position.