I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
On a traffic light green means 'go' and yellow means 'yield', but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means 'hold… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that… — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“union of opposites to form human nature was just what human beings told themselves to rationalize away their imperfections. Maybe it was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A human life has seasons much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power. And gift.… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I got a part opposite Edward G. Robinson in a play called Middle of The Night, which Paddy Cheyafsky had written. It… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
I think the dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core liberal - and remember, the more dyed-in-the-wool, the more hard-core, the more ignorant they are, and yet… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Disregarding all evidence to the contrary, the student of Truth will maintain that he lives in a PERFECT Universe and among people… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We really are different, like two WORLDS APART.. we don't have the same taste of music.. nor in the ways we live..… — Joanne Lobedica Copy Share Image
Life and death! They seem like complete opposites-at great enmity with each other. But for Paul-and for all who share his faith-there… — John Piper Copy Share Image
When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When I go home, I am a slug. I want to do everything completely opposite of what I do on the red… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith… — Howard Twilley Copy Share Image
There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never… — Bryan Callen Copy Share Image
Here's what the rest of the world does that we don't do. They take the tax off of their exports and place… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was… — Slash Copy Share Image
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
You come from the NRL and it's a forwards-dominated game, I think, at the moment. You get three sets and kick and… — Joel Monaghan Copy Share Image
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
