I Quotes
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“I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.”
“I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.”
“I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.”
Source: Post Captain (Vol. Book 2) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
“I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.”
“I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.”
“I am opposed to globalism, I am opposed to colonialism, I am opposed to any sort of complusion of one nation over another. (...) I also deeply believe in human rights.”
“I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.”
“I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.”
“I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“I am opposed to Naperville. It's all cute, trendy and expensive, and filled with cookie-cutter Borg houses that assimilate you into upper-middle-class America.”
Source: Bewitched, Blooded and Bewildered
“I am opposed to Obama's efforts to destroy the American economy. I'm opposed to Obama's efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I'm opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.”
“I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“I am opposed to special rights for gays just as I am opposed to special rights for heterosexuals or smokers. I can attest to the fact that sexual orientation is not immutable and I urge the city council to vote no on this amendment.”
“I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.”
“I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.”
Source: Collected Papers
“I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.”
“I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.”
“I am opposed to the redefinition of marriage.”
“I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education.”
“I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.”
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
“I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile and limited creatures like you and I. I am against the idea of clean, clearly distinct epochs in the history of philosophy or indeed in anything else. I think that history is always messy, contingent, plural and material. I am against the constant revenge of idealism in how we think about history.”
“I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up”
“I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.”
“I am optimistic about the future of music.”
“I am optimistic about the future. Brethren, for our part, we must remain steadfast in hope, work with all our strength, and trust in God.”
“I am optimistic and confident that the world can generate real economic growth and that over the next 20 years that growth will accrue to my investments.”
Source: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
“I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.”
“I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it, but we really hope the conservation message rubs off in our film. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.”
“I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.”
“I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.”
“I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.”
“I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.”
“I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting stuff together. I think there are more stories about women of color [and] older women. But it is slim pickings.”
“I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of “World’s worst writers.” The list couldn’t get any shorter, because I’m the only name on it. I should tell her to stop calling it a list, and change the title to “World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers.”
“I am ordinary person with extraordinary curiosity.”
“I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia.”
“I am out in public and using the phone. I am in a phone booth, got the phone in my hand and a man taps on the glass and says You using the phone? Nope, I'm superman, i am just looking for my costume. Here's your sign!”
“I am out of humanity's reach.”
“I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.”
Source: Poems
“I am out of money,we are all out of money,but we dont need money down here- Dont need anything but Men , Muskets, Ammunition, Hard Tack, Bacon and Letters from home.”
“I am out of practice at living.
You are as brave as a motorcycle.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.”
“I am out of the saga, he thought. He had a heavy sense of being left in total isolation; everyone had withdrawn from him and the person who could most have helped him was pre-empted by another.”
Source: The Nice and the Good
“I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.”
“I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.”
“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
Source: Letters of Emily Dickinson
“I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.”
“I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?”