Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Anthony Trollope

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

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

Ann Coulter

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Justin Trudeau

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.

Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.

Fernando Ferrer

we've been opponents in politics, but never opponents in purpose.

Andrew Young

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

We like to pressure our opponents and play an up-tempo game. We're young, and we're still developing.

Kirk Ferentz

When you do things that are uncharacteristic, we had to play well on special teams, and we didn't do that. When you do things that are not characteristic, even subtle things, you have to give your opponents a lot of credit.

Curtis Jackson

Negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around - to defeat an opponent and lift you up.

Tatyana Lebedeva

Even without Smith, I can't relax. My other opponents are strong and could spring a surprise. So I will not relax, I will be fighting.

I've worn down opponents before and today that's what he did to me.

Hale Irwin

I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

Adrian Fenty

I'm going to take all of my opponents seriously.

Alessandro Nesta

They are tough opponents and a very physical side.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I know a lot of conservatives who were very upset with that because they wanted a showdown, they wanted the filibuster rule on presidential opponents abolished.

George H. W. Bush

I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, Read my lips: no new taxes.

Muhammad Ali

My toughest opponent has always been me.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

Sloane Stephens

I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

Paul Begala

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

Paul Ryan

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

Leon Panetta

Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.

David Taras

He's pre-empting any opponents by saying he's already leaving,