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Opposition Quotes
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. - Brian Ferneyhough Quotes
I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. Im glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted. - Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind. - Frank Harris Quotes
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. - James Thurber Quotes
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. - Edward Levi Quotes
I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest. - Elia Kazan Quotes
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. - Joseph Stalin Quotes
First of all, I cant forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and thats to provide an alternative government. - Stephen Harper Quotes
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. - Edward R Murrow Quotes
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war. - Bianca Jagger Quotes
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. - Robert Vaughn Quotes
Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush. - James Bovard Quotes
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. - John Burns Quotes
Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions. - Sunil Gavaskar Quotes
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We cant live with it, and we cant live without it. Youll rarely find a happy ending in my work. - Krzysztof Kieslowski Quotes
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. - Garrett Hardin Quotes
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. - Joseph Franklin Rutherford Quotes
Both on Iraq and the economy, the President ought to be asking his friends in the Congress to pound away on what the opposition has been saying. - Paul Weyrich Quotes
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. - Lewis Mumford Quotes
He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them. - Bryant H Mcgill Quotes
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. - Walter Lippmann Quotes
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. - Sigmund Freud Quotes
The Opposition arent really the Opposition. Theyre just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence. - Antony Jay Quotes
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. - Karl Marx Quotes
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed. - Duff Green Quotes
I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying its their money. They said its not their money; its my mothers money. Well thats whats wrong with the system. - Johnny Isakson Quotes
For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc. - Roman Jakobson Quotes
The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. - Virginia Woolf Quotes
A helicopter does not want to fly. It is maintained in the air by a variety of forces and controls working in opposition to each other. - Harry Reasoner Quotes
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. - John Acton Quotes
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