#oppose

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#clear #come #complicated #fight #life

That was something. As opposed to nothing. ↗

— Kevin Ayers

#opposed #something

Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter. ↗

— Russell Baker

#anything #business #either #evil #humanity

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#behavior #i #law #laws #opposed

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around. ↗

— Julia Barr

#anything #around #ate #because #ever

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#authority #automatically #beliefs #children #evidence

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#done #handwriting #i #i think #like

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#basis #been #demonstrated #fact #faith

I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler. ↗

— Wilhelm Canaris

#criminal #did #duty #folly #hitler

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#bill #bill clinton #brand #clinton #country