(433 quotes found)
“I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”
Mark Twain
“Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.”
William Shakespeare
“Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.”
Whitney M. Young Jr.
“The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.”
Carson McCullers
“The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.”
Ramman Kenoun
“So, friend, when I first looked upon your face, our thoughts gave answer each to each. Opposed mirrors each reflecting each, although I knew not in what time or place, methought that I had often met with you, and each had lived in other's mind and speech.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.”
Connie Mack
“We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”
Susan Sontag
“Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.”
George F. Will
“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”
William Penn