Opposites Quotes · Page 11

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

— David O. Selznick

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

— Alexandra Roach

“competition and capitalism are opposites.”

— Peter Thiel

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

— Pico Iyer

Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.

— Stuart Duncan

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

— Donald Hall

A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.

— Will Rogers

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

— Henry Mintzberg

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

— Salman Rushdie

In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite,…

— Frederick Lenz

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

— Eli Siegel

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because itis dual, because…

— D. H. Lawrence

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

— Jim Gaffigan

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

— Simone Weil

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and…

— Shakti Gawain

We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's…

— Gabrielle Bernstein

Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only…

— Thomas Merton

The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if…

— Northrop Frye

Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the…

— Plato

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and…

— Mark Skousen

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness…

— Gloria Steinem

As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So,…

— Bashar al-Assad

Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I…

— Fran Lebowitz

It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that…

— Rob Sheffield

Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in…

— Richard Bentall

The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created…

— Rajneesh

The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior…

— Philipp Meyer

The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of…

— Martha Beck

Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Imagine your mind as a garden and thoughts as the seeds you plant. Habitual negative, unhealthy, self-critical thoughts produce the weeds and…

— Sue Thoele

The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me…

— Linda McQuaig

“To overcome the mind, let go of the opposites.”

— Anil Jain

Shaking hands with the strangers of opposite sex is forbidden

— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

— Suzanne Collins

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

— John Ruskin

You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

— Cassandra Clare

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

— Anthony Burgess

Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

— William J. Clinton

Love is the opposite of power. Thats why we fear it so much.

— Anonymous