#opposed

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

— Barack Obama

#dumb #i #i am #oppose #opposed

I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#actor #approach #been #coming #culmination

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#death #death penalty #i #opposed #penalty

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment. ↗

— Michael Pitt

#capturing #feel #film #i #i feel

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#acceptable #argument #doctrinaire #foolish #idea

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#beautiful #beautiful city #bus #city #door

I support health care reform in this country, but the current bills we have before us are too big, too costly, and the people who send me to Washington to be their voice are opposed to them and this process. ↗

— Mike Ross

#big #bills #care #costly #country

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence. ↗

— Earl Browder

#breaking #cold #cold war #communist #ever

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#both #cannot #distance #either #goods

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#historically #inherently #oaths #open #open society