Opposites Quotes · Page 19

People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.

— Michael Jackson

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

— Ronald Reagan

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

— Henry Fielding

The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

— Ashley Madekwe

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

— Eckhart Tolle

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

— Gregory David Roberts

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

— Rumi

Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.

— Joan D. Chittister

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

— Nilakanta Sri Ram

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that…

— Andrew Solomon

People think it's legalization, it's being sold as legalization-even though it's the opposite of legalization.

— Dennis Peron

While some couples are simply made for each other, it often seems that opposites attract.

— Pixarpedia

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

— Roger von Oech

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

— Niels Bohr

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

— Gary Zukav

When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they…

— Collin Peterson

I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's…

— Mitchell A. Wilson

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now…

— Kenny Loggins

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of…

— Ann Druyan

Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when…

— George Saunders

I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists... We both dance and sing but people have…

— Christina Aguilera

I think my mother was baffled by me. We were polar opposites. She was shy and retiring. I was over-fond of the…

— Laurie Graham

I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I…

— Chris Colfer

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the…

— Deborah Rhode

I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach…

— Martin Buber

The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be…

— Chuck Klosterman

I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where…

— E. Lockhart

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very…

— Tom Robbins

As soon as she was close, she whispered, "you've got to get out of here." "No, you've got to get out of…

— Ally Carter

I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the…

— Johannes Kepler

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.

— Tor Nørretranders

When I see everyone doing the same thing, I want to do the opposite.

— Mike Ness

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

— Niels Bohr

The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult.

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

— June Singer

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh…

— Travis Barker