Top 454 Opposing Quotes & Sayings

The arts are tremendously powerful in bringing people with opposing views together.

Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position.

FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.

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

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

In 2014, we were opposing President Xi Jinping. Five years later, we are opposing Emperor Xi Jinping.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

In order to have a hope of creating better answers, we need to deeply understand the logic of the opposing answers. That means thinking about how we think about both models - not just do we like one versus the other. Rather we have to ask: How do I think each model produces the results that it does? Metacognition, thinking about thinking, builds up our capacity to do that and to play with opposing ideas - and new models - in real time.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

I love showing off my skills on the pitch. You can make opposing players look stupid.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. If your mind is closed to opposing ideas, your ignorance is in control. Intelligence or ignorance? Your ability to keep an open mind and appreciate multiple points of view is conscious choice. And one that can open your world, and shape your childs future.

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

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

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

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

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

Opposing [Donald]Trump aligns you with Hamas.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

All the in-depth scouting reports we have on the opposing pitchers - just kind of learning how to study that, it's huge.

Most human beings spend their lives battling with opposing inner forces: what they think they should do versus what they are doing; how they feel about themselves versus how they are; whether they think they’re right and worthy or wrong and unworthy. The separate self is just the conglomeration of these opposing forces. When the self drops away, inner division drops away with it.

Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies.

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.

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

Nene is an unbelievable talent. He's a nightmare for the opposing team.

Success depends on our using, and not opposing.

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

Whenever God is blessing, we can expect the devil to be opposing.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

At the highest level, you are playing the best from an opposing country, so the margin of error is very little.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

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

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

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

In Serie A if you have an exceptional physique and you train very well you can destroy any opposing defense.

In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.

No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.

The last thing you want as a striker is the opposing team putting all 10 players behind the ball.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.

I have no problem with anyone storming the court. But storm the court after the opposing team has gone to the locker room. Once the opposing team is out of the area, put them all (the fans) on the court.

Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

I call for the awakening of our people's ancient soul, capable of opposing a bloodthirsty barbarism.

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

Martin Skrtel is good at rattling the opposing centre-forward.

Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.

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

Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Obama tried to make deals with Republicans, and I don't think he realized he'd have such an insanely opposing Congress.

It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.