Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sitaram Yechury

Our party's position is clear. We are opposed to FDI in retail sector.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to another doughnut.

I think if enough people tell him they oppose it, he will listen.

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

China's position on nonproliferation is clear. We resolutely oppose any proliferation.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Erwin McManus

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

Rand Paul

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

The prosecution is completely opposed to any question of severance of the indictments.

Nuno Bettencourt

As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.

Benigno Aquino III

One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.

We need to look at that report to see what it says to see why people would be opposed to it.

Don Johnson

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

Drake Bell

I just think it's so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.

Those who sell 'archive' product -- as opposed to 'hit' product -- will survive better than those who don't.

Chellie Pingree

When I stood up to oppose an invasion of Iraq in 2002, it wasn't a popular thing to do.

Alison Sweeney

Working towards something you're excited about - as opposed to something that makes you feel badly about yourself - is what will keep you going back to the gym.

Barack Obama

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Jason Calacanis

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

Roger Cook

We need to have them playing as opposed to setting on the bench.

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

John Roberts

Yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas, ... Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

In all fairness, this was more of a typical late-October weekend, as opposed to a year ago, when 'The Grudge' surprised everyone and made this weekend look pale by comparison.

Jamie Blackley

I like dates that are really fun as opposed to just getting dinner.

The United States is opposed to any such discussions.

They're self-portraits of the way that I feel about myself physically as opposed to the way society makes me feel about myself.

They're putting us in a box. At the end of the day, the poison pill they put in there may make us oppose it.