Quotes and Sayings about Opponents
"If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Friends, Oil, Opponents)
"That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary."
- Piers Anthony
"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."
- Alexis Arguello
(Related: Fight, Opponents, Will)
"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."
- John Carter
(Related: Government, First, Opponents, Party, Public, Suspicion)
"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?"
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Peace, Opponents)
"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."
- David Crane
(Related: Age, People, College, Computer, Events, Fact, Opponents, Tennis)
"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."
- Herbert Croly
(Related: Adoption, Constitution, Importance, Opponents, Republicans, states)
"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."
- Jacques Derrida
(Related: Name, Opponents)
"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."
- Helen Dunmore
(Related: Opponents, Want)
"I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed."
- Rahm Emanuel
(Related: People, End, Focus, Investigation, Nothing, Opponents, Presidency, Succeed)
"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."
- Lorrie Fair
(Related: Nations, Opponents, World)
"If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide."
- Meg Greenfield
(Related: Mother, Being, First, Opponents, Press, Will, Years)
"But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better."
- Daniela Hantuchova
(Related: Thought, Being, Opponents, Play)
"Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world."
- Dennis Hastert
(Related: Opponents, Speech, World)
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
- Ernest Hemingway
(Related: Being, Opponents)
"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."
- Theodor Herzl
(Related: Desire, May, Obstacles, Opponents)
"The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."
- Adolf Hitler
(Related: Leader, Genius, Ability, Opponents)
"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."
- Herbert Hoover
(Related: Power, Time, Depression, Opponents)
"I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I."
- David Horowitz
(Related: First, Rights, Opponents, University)
"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."
- David Horowitz
(Related: America, Deeds, Intentions, Judges, Key, Opponents)
"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."
- King Hussein I
(Related: Peace, Israel, Opponents, Want)
"Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people."
- William L. Jenkins
(Related: People, Opponents, President)
"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."
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
(Related: Men, Community, Opponents, Service)
"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."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Open, Opponents)
"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."
- Robert Kennedy
(Related: Cause, Evil, Extreme, Opponents)
"The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents."
- Imran Khan
(Related: Opponents)
"There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done."
- Jason Kidd
(Related: Hope, Focus, Opponents, Will)
"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."
- Bobby Knight
(Related: Basketball, Opponents, Play)
"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."
- Mort Kondracke
(Related: Living, Opponents)
"I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Opponents)
"Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat."
- Fran Lebowitz
(Related: Children, Fun, Opponents)
"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
- Thomas Malthus
(Related: Attention, Opponents, Theory)
"You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents."
- Wynton Marsalis
(Related: People, Opponents)
"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."
- Martin McGuinness
(Related: Peace, Travel, Decision, Country, Opponents, Public, Responsibility)
"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought."
- Dwight Morrow
(Related: Blame, Credit, Opponents, Party, Rain)
"In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents."
- Jose Mourinho
(Related: Opponents, Possession, Years)
"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Cause, Opponents)
"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."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Anger, Losing, Opponents)
"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."
- Sadaharu Oh
(Related: Strength, Opponents, Result)
"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."
- Frederick Scott Oliver
(Related: Life, Men, End, Obvious, Opponents, Opposition, Public)
"The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation."
- Orhan Pamuk
(Related: Imitation, Opponents, Poor)
"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."
- Rick Perry
(Related: People, Opponents, Party, Trying)
"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."
- Max Planck
(Related: Winning, Innovation, Opponents)
"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."
- Max Planck
(Related: Truth, Light, Opponents)
"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."
- Max Planck
(Related: Truth, Light, Opponents)
"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."
- Manfred von Richthofen
(Related: English, Eyes, May, Opponents, Stupidity)
"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."
- Bob Riley
(Related: Children, First, Focus, Opponents, School)
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue."
- Boyle Roche
(Related: Lies, Opponents)
"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."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: Congress, Facts, Infatuation, Jobs, Opponents, Press, Resentment, World)
"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."
- Thomas J. Sargent
(Related: Class, Danger, Opponents, Tests)
"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."
- Jim Sensenbrenner
(Related: Act, Law, Legislation, Opponents)
"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."
- Harry Shearer
(Related: Politics, Democrats, Morals, Opponents, Republicans)
"I understand the harsh feelings and sentiments from my opponents and their supporters because I myself have been defeated twice in my political life in the past and I understand very well it is hard to accept your own failure."
- Chen Shui-bian
(Related: Life, Feelings, Failure, Opponents, Past)
"My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it."
- Rob Simmons
(Related: Attitude, Tax, Opponents)
"Forget your opponents; always play against par."
- Sam Snead
(Related: Forget, Opponents, Play)
"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."
- Payne Stewart
(Related: Day, End, Friends, Golf, Opponents)
"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."
- Helen Suzman
(Related: People, Country, Opponents)
"Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents."
- Lawrence Taylor
(Related: Opponents, Want)
"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."
- Craig L. Thomas
(Related: Nation, Negativity, Opponents, President, Security, states, United)
"Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for."
- Joshua A. Tucker
(Related: Opponents, Trade)
"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."
- Morihei Ueshiba
(Related: Force, Opponents)
"The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable."
- Paul Weyrich
(Related: Opponents)
"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."
- Sue Wicks
(Related: Opponents)
"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."
- Sue Wicks
(Related: Time, Killing, Opponents, Play, Respect)