It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst… — Huineng Copy Share Image
The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the… — Al McGuire Copy Share Image
The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Just as love blinds us to imperfections in others, it magnifies those we see in ourselves. But if this is true, then… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high.… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Building your "dream life" is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream: Mistakes Delays Starting over Failure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
What is the opposite of abundance? It's not scarcity. It's greed. Greed is the belief that there is not enough for everyone,… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If you don't know a light bulb is a three-way light bulb, it messes with your head. You reach to turn it… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Taoism means streching your being, becoming both a man and a woman and joining within yourself, to be the heavens themselves, to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed,… — Vaughn Walker Copy Share Image
