#opponents

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. ↗

— Aeschylus

#friends #into #oil #opponents #pour

Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents. ↗

— Martin McGuinness

#also #around #commission #country #decision

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#campaigns #circle #combination #compromise #generally

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#cause #cease #faithful #insipid #only

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. ↗

— Frederick Scott Oliver

#end #engaged #life #means #men

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. ↗

— Bob Riley

#children #classrooms #come #employee #first

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#collection #display #election #found #going

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#cause #dangerous #evil #extreme #extremists

The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents. ↗

— Imran Khan

#does #going #homework #opponents #studying

There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done. ↗

— Jason Kidd

#be patient #conference #detroit #done #fiercest