Opponents Quotes - Page 21

• Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how it is going to go until you turn up. It's like playing tennis, you can't plan for the match you are going to play until you are actually up against your opponent and what happens, happens. That is the joy of being on set.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Play, Tennis, Joy

  "Tom Hiddleston THE AVENGERS Set Visit Interview". Interview on the Set, collider.com. April 2, 2012.

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• One should respect a defeated opponent!

  Alexander Khalifman

  Defeated, Should

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• Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

  Walter Lippmann

  Looks, Sap, Lasts

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attention, Pay, Fancy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.135, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

  Mencius

  Love Is, Government, Empires

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.174

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• If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities. If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Smart, Winning

  "Obama Speaks at Veterans of Foreign Wars' Convention; Tropical Storm Fay Moves Up Florida Peninsula; U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Face Suicide Bombers; Presidential Candidates Close to Naming Running Mates; Payoff in Gold for a Promising Athlete". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. August 19, 2008.

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• From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Character, Golf

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• We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Car, People

  India Together, July 2000.

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• Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.

  Wong Kiew Kit

  Art, Philosophy, Blow

  Wong Kiew Kit (2002). “The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment”, p.73, Tuttle Publishing

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• The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

  Anthony Trollope

  Politician, Pleasure, Charm

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.230, 谷月社

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• Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.

  Alan Lightman

  Moving, Issues, Rooms

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• For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.

  Garry Kasparov

  Inspiration, Player, Rose

  "How Life Imitates Chess". Book by Garry Kasparov, 2007.

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• To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.

  Garry Kasparov

  Real, Creativity, Player

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign?

  Chuck Norris

  Character, Campaigns, Tables

  "Huckabee Hates 'Huckabees' -- Chuck Norris'll Choke You Out!". Youtube video, BarelyPolitical.com Interview, www.youtube.com. December 5, 2007.

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• If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Smart, Thinking, Ifs

  "Chanur's Legacy". Book by C. J. Cherryh, 1992.

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• All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.

  Octavia Butler

  Children, Long, Honor

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• Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Deception, Use, Crafts

  "Diary of a Bad Year". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2007.

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• The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

  David Gemmell

  Fall, Method, Ifs

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 6, May 1, 1988.

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• A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Overcoming, Backgrounds

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 13, 1985.

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• The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.

  Alex Ferguson

  Player, Thinking, Balls

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

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• I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it.

  Jimmy Carter

  Suicide, Political, President

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• It is necessary to heal the wounds of the past If you are going to build your country and to have unity. I am working with people who fought me very bitterly before the elections. It was my responsibility as the man who is leading the majority party, my responsibility to heal the wounds of the past and to work with people who were my opponents.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Party, Responsibility

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• In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

  Paul Keating

  Australia, May, Ends

  Election Concession Speech, australianpolitics.com. March 02, 1996.

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• This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Men, America

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• Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

  Amartya Sen

  May, Folly, Globalisation

  "Freedom's market" by Amartya Sen, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2000.

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