#opposed

For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#always #debussy #different #direction #followed

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

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against. ↗

— Vanessa Williams

#beings #experience #fight #figures #get

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitment to other more constant values as to which there is general consensus. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

#commitment #consensus #constant #general #i

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

There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#classical #develop #doing #each #good

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#country #experts #foreign #highly #history

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#i #nail #opposed #them #tooth

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#account #acquired #brought #call #day