Quotations
Quotes:
Five minutes to go here, and England currently have a winning lead... [as opposed to?]
View quotes by John Motson
If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.
View quotes by Matt Blunt
Always write angry letters to your enemies [as opposed to mailing or emailing them in the modern age!]
View quotes by James Fallows
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding)
View quotes by John Locke
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
View quotes by Samuel Johnson
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
View quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
For me it was important to write material that would reflect what I’ve been doing for the last 18 months as opposed to try and create Born To Do It Part II.
View quotes by Craig David
Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony
View quotes by Blaise Pascal
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
View quotes by Jimmy Buffett
It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets [having a dig at Big Brother]
View quotes by Bradley Wiggins
Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.
View quotes by Story Musgrave
The Argentine Tango felt very natural from the moment we started to learn it. You dance it for your own personal pleasure as opposed to the audience and I love the fact that it's non-showy
View quotes by Flavia Cacace
It is outrageous to think that if you are on the side of freedom for the Chinese people and opposed to communism that you are anything but pro-Chinese.
View quotes by Chris Cox
On the birth of her 2nd son Owen. 'I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!'
View quotes by Ricki Lake
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
View quotes by Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
View quotes by F Scott Fitzgerald
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. (Principia Mathematica)
View quotes by Sir Isaac Newton
Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
View quotes by Dennis Miller
When people come together, go to each other's country, and watch a conflict being played out on the field of sport, as opposed to the field of battle... then why can't that same spirit, that same philosophy, infect other aspects of relations? [Hoping India and Pakistan would develop their relationship off the pitch]
View quotes by Colin Powell
I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.
View quotes by Leelee Sobieski
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