Opposites Quotes · Page 39

Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

— Frederick Lenz

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty…

— Bryan Stevenson

A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about…

— John Turturro

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine…

— Criss Jami

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the devil's] own…

— Hans Nielsen Hauge

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

— Douglas Coupland

We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions

— Walter Russell

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill…

— Tom Hodgkinson

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit,…

— Neil Jordan

Mr. John Coleman, who invented the Weather Channel, represents over 30,000 scientists who cannot get their voices heard on the main stream…

— Peter DeGraaf

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb…

— Harvey Mackay

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their…

— C. S. Lewis

I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music…

— Ariel Pink

I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of…

— Elizabeth Strout

One time you told me that the opposite of love isn't hate. And I didn't understand that, but I think I do…

— Barry Lyga

I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to…

— Arianna Huffington

As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to…

— Georges St-Pierre

Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more…

— Giacomo Casanova

“Some things seem to be viewed in similar ways by many people, and I think we should take another look at these…

— Julia Woodman

Real love brings about calm-not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is…

— Yasmin Mogahed

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell…

— James Richardson

Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

— Stephen King

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by…

— Rush Limbaugh

Some people can have a dark side, completely the opposite of the image they portray.

— Azran Osman Rani

None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with…

— Anthony Trollope

Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.

— Confucius

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite…

— Earl Wilson

In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

— Frederick Lenz

You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite…

— Luke Wilson

“I know that opposites attract, but who the hell wants to spend time with an opposite?”

— Brent Hartinger

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

— Judith Jamison

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

— Plato

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

— Benjamin Disraeli

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about…

— Casper Crump

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the…

— Max Muller

I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're…

— Ashton Kutcher