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If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.
To each his own, but my process of preparation is based on conditions, not opposition.
If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.
I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back.
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.
Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition.
I always tried to defend high up the pitch, to be in the opposition's half and play the game there.
Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.
What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.
Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
Pure Christianity, instead of being shaped by its environment, actually stands in sharp opposition to it.
There is no point in winning contests if you can't leave mental scars on the minds of the opposition teams.
Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.
Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with that.
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'
Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.
You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.
Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.
One more point I`ll just make about [Michael] Flynn is that we`re already seeing, and we`ve seen Democrats come forward and start to express their opposition.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.
You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.
I have been outspoken on my opposition to 'Obamacare,' and I don't buy the line that our Medicaid program, or any function of government, has reached maximum efficiency.
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.
People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.
The Russians win when we allow our intelligence community to be politicized, when we allow political opposition research to function as a basis for a warrant to spy on American citizens.