Opposites Quotes · Page 41

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

— Heraclitus

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

— Tim Allen

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the…

— Alex Steffen

“When I see your light pieces with my dark pieces, I begin to understand why they say opposites attract.”

— Amanda Lovelace

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man…

— Terry Pratchett

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This…

— Dani Shapiro

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually…

— Matt Taibbi

Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and…

— Lee Carroll

I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the…

— Simone Elkeles

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater…

— Criss Jami

Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand.…

— Seymour Papert

I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent…

— Abraham Lincoln

If you just open your dictionary, "morality" is the sense that separates good from evil. And if you really want to see…

— Gaspar Noe

As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life…

— Jonathon Porritt

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at…

— Stephen Colbert

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and…

— Archibald MacLeish

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I think the most important challenge that remains is this mentality in Washington that sanctions have been an asset, and some people…

— Mohammad Javad Zarif

To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing,…

— Reginald John Campbell

When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat…

— John Green

Life is full of painful events, and people who have lost their way and hurt others. Our pain is not lessened when…

— Bernie Siegel

I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to…

— Rodney Mullen

Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't…

— Craig Silvey

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of…

— James Broughton

Some people want to feel comfortable when they're performing; I'm kind of the opposite.

— Guillermo E. Brown

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

— Massimo Vignelli

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

— Anonymous

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite…

— Thomas Sowell

Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the…

— Tom Ford

We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our…

— Michio Kushi

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

— Edmund Snow Carpenter

“Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.”

— Neal Stephenson

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

— Florence King

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

— Graham Swift

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

— John Pugsley

“If love and hate aren’t true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain—if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles…

— Daria Snadowsky

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

— Oliver Goldsmith

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

— Benjamin Graham