Quotes of Oppose - somelinesforyou

“ If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. ”

- Kenneth A. Wells

“ Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees. ”

- Boris Marshalov

“ In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. ”

- J. W. Fulbright

“ If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along — whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. ”

- Bernard Meltzer

“ It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.... Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. ”

- Horace Mann

“ I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A buck of the first head. - Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. ”

- Voltaire

“ I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to. ”

- Conrad Black

“ In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. ”

- Learned Hand

“ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ”

- Bible

“ I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ”

- Mae West

“ Truth does not contradict truth. ”

- Elizer Zvi Zweifel

“ As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? ”

- Alexander Pope

“ In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. ”

- Alexander The Great

“ Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. ”

- Barack Obama

“ The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. ”

- Alexandria Penney

“ It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate dissent, freedom of association and so on. ”

- Mary Robinson

“ Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. ”

- William Makepeace Thackeray

“ Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ He had a face like a blessing. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. ”

- Ovid

“ I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them. ”

- Charles de Gaulle
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