It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks As though she bid me stay by her a week. If she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed! A true antithesis to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure,… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis:… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“All this waiting. Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the bill. Waiting at the airport for an… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I am the antithesis of what Charlotte from Sex and the City would wear, I am often wearing baggy, drab clothes for… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love… — Aaron Stanford Copy Share Image
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off… — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
I am not a hoarder, but my wardrobe is the antithesis of fast fashion. I buy clothes - beautiful in looks and… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for. — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
