#opposition

A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of pain. However, if you're a person who knows it all, then you've got a lot of heavy-hearted experiences coming your way. ↗

— Ron Carpenter Jr.

#inspirational-life #learning-from-mistakes #quotes-that-make-sense #quotes-to-define-my-life #quotes-to-live-by

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#man #many #opposition #out #strength

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#beat #becomes #before #big #films

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#audience #generally #go #i #i think

Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush. ↗

— James Bovard

#air #aware #bill #bill of rights #bush

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#freedom #full #i #letters #never

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#always #encountered #mediocre #minds #opposition

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#blaming #far #irrespective #many #moved

We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#against #always #come #issue #knew

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work. ↗

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#brings #creates #dilemmas #elements #ending