Opponents Quotes - Page 9

• If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Strong, Player, Ideas

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• Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.

  Linus Pauling

  Truth, Believe, Games

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• As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Firsts, Disciple, Has Beens

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

  Dave Barry

  Respect, Funny Inspirational, Party

  "Is Findlay’s water safe?". "The Courier" Interview, thecourier.com. February 15, 2016.

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• The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

  William Faulkner

  War, Self, Enemy

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• A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent.

  Paulo Coelho

  Warrior, Light, Resorts

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• In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Inspirational, Battle, Already Won

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• Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Walking Away, World

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• Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Athlete, Soul

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media will only refer to partial birth abortion as 'what its opponents refer to as partial birth abortions.' What do its supporters call it? Casual Fridays? Bean-with-bacon potato chip dip? Uh . . . Steve?

  Ann Coulter

  Friday, New York, Media

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• I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gratitude, Abuse, Add

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• Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

  Patricia Briggs

  Stupid, Anger, Blades

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• Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Flower, Said, Scarlet

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• Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Unity, Causes, Needs

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• Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities.

  Sarah Palin

  Jobs, Responsibility, Alaska

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Past, Technology

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• In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

  Harry S. Truman

  Names, Giving, Campaigns

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.

  Neal Stephenson

  Bombs, Aliens, Atomic Bomb

  Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.172, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Might, Energetic, Happens

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.312, Hachette UK

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• [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

  Jared Diamond

  Crush, Religious, Patriotic

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

  John Locke

  Mean, Fighting, Want

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• It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Heart, Fighting, Games

  Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.

  Tamora Pierce

  Winning, People, Equipment

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.203, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Powerful, Faces, Reactions

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• When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.

  Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens

  Weakness, Politics, Position

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