What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief. — Leslie Weatherhead Copy Share Image
Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive. — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you. — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can't say, "I'm going to try to be cool at all cost when I do this," because that's… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
I bear witness of the power of the priesthood given to the Church to protect us and guide us. And because we… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is… — Marshall Goldsmith Copy Share Image
With a comedian, it's the opposite. You put that album out, and they've heard it. If they're coming out to see you,… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
A lot of times in parks the large dogs and little dogs separate. That creates the opposite of social. Sometimes dogs run… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
