Oppositions Magazine Quotes

#1. I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.

Casey Neistat

#2. Refuse the council of despair! Don't live by the statistics, live according to the prophetic word!

Lou Engle

#3. It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

Erica Jong

#4. Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

Antoni Tapies

#5. In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.

Rex Reed

#6. The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

Mary Parker Follett

#7. in the first recorded encounter between Sapiens and Neanderthals, the Neanderthals won. About 100,000 years ago, some Sapiens groups migrated north to the Levant, which was Neanderthal territory, but failed to secure a firm footing.

Yuval Noah Harari

#8. If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

James Rozoff

#9. A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

Diana Nyad

#10. The clay can become a bear," she said, "but not as long as it rests cold and wet in the riverbank.

Orson Scott Card

#11. Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Warren E. Burger

#12. But that battered word, truth, having made its appearance here, confronts one immediately with a series of riddles and has, moreover, since so many gospels are preached, the unfortunate tendency to make one belligerent.

James Baldwin