Quotes About Worthy Opponents

#1. Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I'd viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She'd seen it as animal cruelty.

Richelle Mead

#2. Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Oliver Goldsmith

#3. I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

Diora Baird

#4. I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

Dambisa Moyo

#5. I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

Georgia Jagger

#6. Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

Thomas Merton

#7. However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Thom Mayne

#9. There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale so soon as pleasure.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. I love that the world is data intensive ... unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.'

Werner Vogels

#11. She opens her eyes slowly. It takes her a moment to adjust to the bright kitchen light, shining in her eyes. "Can we rearrange the furniture this weekend?" she asks sleepily. "So when I sleep out here, you don't shine all of Satan's fiery hell lights in my eyes first thing in the morning?

Lisa McMann

#12. If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.

Kiersten Warren