(483 quotes found)
“Who can guarantee that he [Alexander Milinkevich, a Belarussian opposition presidential candidate] is the most promising candidate capable of competing with the incumbent president?”
Alexander Lukashenko
“Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
Thomas Paine
“There's more to light than the opposite of dark.”
Ric Ocasek
“The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition”
Nick Seitz
“I have decided to suspend this procedure to continue the dialogue with the opposition. That doesn't mean I have abandoned combining the elections,”
Abdoulaye Wade
“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”
Sigmund Freud
“Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.”
Susanna Kaysen
“Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
Jane Austen
“Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.”
Diogenes
“Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.”
Cyril Connolly
