Quotes about Opponents

Forget your opponents; always play against par. Votes: 3

Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for. Votes: 3

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours. Votes: 3

Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within. Votes: 3

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly. Votes: 3

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that. Votes: 3

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere. Votes: 3

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent. Votes: 3

Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot. Votes: 3

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Votes: 3

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit. Votes: 3

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966. Votes: 3

Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one. Votes: 3

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. Votes: 3

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue. Votes: 2

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair. Votes: 2

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. Votes: 2

You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance. Votes: 2

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. Votes: 2

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. Votes: 2

The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents. Votes: 2

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. Votes: 2

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you. Votes: 2

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. Votes: 2

Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation. Votes: 2

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. Votes: 2

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. Votes: 2

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. Votes: 2

Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them. Votes: 2

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point. Votes: 2

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Votes: 2

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care. Votes: 2

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity. Votes: 2

I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked. Votes: 2

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community." Votes: 2

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. Votes: 1

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. Votes: 1

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. Votes: 1

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. Votes: 1

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. Votes: 1

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it. Votes: 1

If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds. Votes: 1

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours. Votes: 1

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. Votes: 1

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. Votes: 1

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. Votes: 1

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. Votes: 1

After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend. Votes: 1

Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents. Votes: 1

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service. Votes: 1

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. Votes: 1

Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time. Votes: 1

The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves. Votes: 1

Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime. Votes: 1

It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets. Votes: 1

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. Votes: 1

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out, Votes: 0

For multiple opponents, I have multiple brothers. Votes: 0

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows. Votes: 0

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves. Votes: 0

Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth. Votes: 0

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable. Votes: 0

Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents. Votes: 0

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents. Votes: 0

The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates. Votes: 0

My opponents are the people who gave up our borders. Votes: 0

You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them. Votes: 0

I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating. Votes: 0

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents. Votes: 0

Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents. Votes: 0

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself Votes: 0

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. Votes: 0

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation. Votes: 0

Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet. Votes: 0

Politics is like boxing "” you try to knock out your opponents. Votes: 0

The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents. Votes: 0

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents Votes: 0

Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents. Votes: 0

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents. Votes: 0

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents. Votes: 0

I try not to underestimate my opponents, no matter how ridiculous their beards. Votes: 0

The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world. Votes: 0

All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season Votes: 0

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. Votes: 0

Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont. Votes: 0

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. Votes: 0

I want to coach a team that opponents don't look forward to playing. Votes: 0

You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. Votes: 0

If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears. Votes: 0

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents. Votes: 0

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless. Votes: 0

Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. Votes: 0

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup. Votes: 0

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration Votes: 0

Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents. Votes: 0

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate. Votes: 0

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. Votes: 0

When opponents keep harping on one point, it is a sure sign of success! Votes: 0

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. Votes: 0

never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you Votes: 0

We don't care how big or strong opponents are as long as they are human. Votes: 0

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me. Votes: 0

You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. Votes: 0

Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting. Votes: 0

Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse. Votes: 0

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. Votes: 0

We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents' psyche and their plan of attack, Votes: 0

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents Votes: 0

Being in permanent campaign mode allows you to never stop the process of destroying your opponents. Votes: 0

You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity. Votes: 0

Being in permanent campaign mode allows you to never stop the process of destroying your opponents. Votes: 0

I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them. Votes: 0

Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea. Votes: 0

You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck. Votes: 0

I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me. Votes: 0

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. Votes: 0

We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents. Votes: 0

It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever. Votes: 0

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents. Votes: 0

When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents. Votes: 0

Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage. Votes: 0

One thing that makes aikido is so powerful,it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight. Votes: 0

Never back down, never fear anyone, for the best opponents will help you to play your best. Votes: 0

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans. Votes: 0

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents. Votes: 0

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. Votes: 0

Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents. Votes: 0

Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it. Votes: 0

He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them. Votes: 0

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. Votes: 0

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead. Votes: 0

No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game. Votes: 0

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth. Votes: 0

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes. Votes: 0

In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents. Votes: 0

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. Votes: 0

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say. Votes: 0

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right. Votes: 0

You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents. Votes: 0

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents. Votes: 0

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. Votes: 0

The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively. Votes: 0

To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive; democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles. Votes: 0

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents. Votes: 0

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies. Votes: 0

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself. Votes: 0

Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. Votes: 0

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. Votes: 0

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal. Votes: 0

Never complain about the officiating. It does no good. During the game I don't want to be fighting two opponents. Votes: 0

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. Votes: 0

I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter. Votes: 0

When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee. Votes: 0

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them. Votes: 0

I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile. Votes: 0

It's not enough to win the tricks that belong to you. Try also for some that belong to the opponents. Votes: 0

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it. Votes: 0

As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies. Votes: 0

Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith. Votes: 0

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents Votes: 0

He [Donald Trump] hasn`t shifted on a lot of the things that he had in common with his Republican opponents. Votes: 0

The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents. Votes: 0

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do. Votes: 0

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists. Votes: 0

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain. Votes: 0

The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. Votes: 0

The toughest opponents to defend are Iverson, Marbury and Payton. They are all very talented and can shoot at anytime from anywhere. Votes: 0

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe. Votes: 0

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding. Votes: 0

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents. Votes: 0

I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter. Votes: 0

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them. Votes: 0

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends. Votes: 0

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them Votes: 0

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. Votes: 0

The establishment? Well, guess what? Donald Trump now is the establishment. His primary opponents, many of them are interviewing for White House gigs. Votes: 0

I do not have any fears, no fear of dying, of failure, of anything; that means I am very dangerous for my opponents. Votes: 0

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. Votes: 0

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them). Votes: 0

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them. Votes: 0

Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions. Votes: 0

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people. Votes: 0

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents. Votes: 0

Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people. Votes: 0

What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals. Votes: 0

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through. Votes: 0

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better. Votes: 0

I don't know who my three next opponents will be. A lot of people ask me that. You want to fight me? Earn it. Votes: 0

History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents. Votes: 0

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies. Votes: 0

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well. Votes: 0

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison. Votes: 0

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself. Votes: 0

One of my opponents [Romney] recently said that it would take an act of God for me to win this primary. I agree with him. Votes: 0

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods. Votes: 0

I've dominated a majority of my opponents. Very few people I only win against. Most of the time it's pretty one-sided. That's success to me. Votes: 0

I like to be confident, absolutely not cocky, and I like to have that healthy fear of my opponents. It keeps me on my toes. Votes: 0

Congratulations to one of my favorite opponents and greatest rivals on returning to the WWE. The Rock is the BEST promo man of all time... Votes: 0

Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the two of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting. Votes: 0

People ask if I hate my opponents; I don't. I love them. They are the ones that actually make me bring the best I have. Votes: 0

I don't think of my opponents in the sense that I don't think of them consciously, I don't steer it one way or the other. Votes: 0

When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities. Votes: 0

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. Votes: 0

We middles see the world in shades of grey rather than in the clear blacks and whites of committed animal activists and their equally vociferous opponents Votes: 0

Vladimir Putin is a human rights abuser, responsible for deaths in Ukraine, Georgia and Syria, not to mention curious murders of his political opponents and journalists. Votes: 0

Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness. Votes: 0

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future. Votes: 0

We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them. Votes: 0

the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face. Votes: 0

My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents across the political spectrum. Votes: 0

Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood. Votes: 0

Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him Votes: 0

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that, Votes: 0

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own. Votes: 0

[Muhammad] Ali had [Jo] Frazier , that man had the joker, Coke had Pepsi and [Donald] Trump had [Barack] Obama, or 16 primary opponents or the entire political establishment. Votes: 0

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions. Votes: 0

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day. Votes: 0

[T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement. Votes: 0

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them. Votes: 0

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home. Votes: 0

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents. Votes: 0

Take your energy - instead of losing it in all the little hassles and all the little battles you could have fought with opponents who didn't matter. Votes: 0

Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July. Votes: 0

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not. Votes: 0

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home. Votes: 0

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding. Votes: 0

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle. Votes: 0

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents. Votes: 0

There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not. Votes: 0

We must never underestimate our opponents; nor should we forget that the closer we come to reaching our objectives, the more vicious and forthright will their opposition become. Votes: 0

People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them. Votes: 0

People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them. Votes: 0

We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies. Votes: 0

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace. Votes: 0

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons. Votes: 0

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not. Votes: 0

In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents. Votes: 0

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons." Votes: 0

When somebody can be intimidated, I use this. Because I'm very wise person. I know how to intimidate my opponents. I know how to play tricky stuff for them. Votes: 0

He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents. Votes: 0

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged. Votes: 0

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents. Votes: 0

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism. Votes: 0

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome. Votes: 0

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents. Votes: 0

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust. Votes: 0

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up. Votes: 0

It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle. Votes: 0

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38. Votes: 0

The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve. Votes: 0

Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working. Votes: 0

When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views. Votes: 0

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states. Votes: 0

It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it. Votes: 0

A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds. Votes: 0

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love. Votes: 0

His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave. Votes: 0

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true. Votes: 0

I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try Votes: 0

A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive. Votes: 0

Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over. Votes: 0

Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization. Votes: 0

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization. Votes: 0

The regime kept saying that all of my opponents are lackeys of the United States. We used to say that this is all lie, that we are lackeys of the United States. Votes: 0

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.' Votes: 0

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents. Votes: 0

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer. Votes: 0

Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that? Votes: 0

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents. Votes: 0

I know who I want to fight, but I don't pick my opponents; I leave it up to my team. They make those kinds of decisions. My job is to fight and win. Votes: 0

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. Votes: 0

It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a related story, Arnold is leading the other candidates by four inches. Votes: 0

What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with at least as much passion as the liberals. Votes: 0

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot. Votes: 0

Article II of the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon was just the simple fact that he talked about and suggested the potential use of the IRS against one or two political opponents. Votes: 0

And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness! Votes: 0

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity. Votes: 0

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. Votes: 0

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media. Votes: 0

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them. Votes: 0

There are many games I love to play. Which one I put on the table depends on the mood and the level of experience of my opponents; I don't have a clear favorite. Votes: 0

My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible. Votes: 0

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. Votes: 0

When I was a senior, I ran for class president. And I lost. One of my opponents even told me I was "really stupid" if I thought a girl could be elected president. Votes: 0

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result. Votes: 0

Instead of 'counterrevolutionaries,' liberals' opponents are called 'haters,' 'those who seek to divide us,' 'tea baggers,' and 'right-wing hate groups.' Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals 'liberals'-and that makes them testy. Votes: 0

If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can. Votes: 0

If people, whether they are conservative or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process, and are taking absolutist views, and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down. Votes: 0

Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents. Votes: 0

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable. Votes: 0

Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy ... Votes: 0

The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger. Votes: 0

Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements. Votes: 0

What could be more advantageous in an intellectual contest - whether it be chess, bridge, or stock selection - than to have opponents who have been taught that thinking is a waste of energy? Votes: 0

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible? Votes: 0

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. Votes: 0

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents Votes: 0

Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible? Votes: 0

We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment. Votes: 0

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be. Votes: 0

Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error. Votes: 0

Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension that oozes from him when he's talking about his opponents, it's really striking. Votes: 0

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals. Votes: 0

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left. Votes: 0

Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish. Votes: 0

The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win. Votes: 0

Mosley is bigger than me. He's fast and his hand speed is still there. He's faster than most of my opponents. He's also preparing hard and he's also good, so we never underestimate our opponent. Votes: 0

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Votes: 0