Opposites Quotes · Page 15

Photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

— James Nachtwey

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

— Karl Marx

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

— Henry David Thoreau

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

— Robert Reich

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

— Patanjali

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

— Aaron Sorkin

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

— George Carlin

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

— Arundhati Roy

I found out why opposites attract when I met you. It's because everything I'm not, you are, and the pieces fit together…

— Nishan Panwar

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

— William Delbert Gann

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe…

— Kelly Wearstler

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine…

— Elie Wiesel

There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

— Miyamoto Musashi

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

— Chris Pine

I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition…

— Kristen Stewart

Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in…

— Kate Flannery

As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and…

— R. K. Laxman

Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the…

— Plato

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and…

— Mark Skousen

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness…

— Gloria Steinem

Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only…

— Thomas Merton

The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if…

— Northrop Frye

It's a film made in a very radical creative manner. It was possible because we didn't have to pander to capitalism. I…

— Alex Abreu

The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that…

— Noam Chomsky

There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal…

— Wallace D. Wattles

I'm a little old-fashioned - I like it when the man opens the door and I like it when a man pays…

— Carly Simon

Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school…

— Sheldon Richman

The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth,…

— Kate Kelly

“God loves my people and me. God also loves those whom I consider my enemies. Now what do I do? The spirit…

— Eric H.F. Law

In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to…

— Max Horkheimer

God never promised that we wouldn’t have challenges. In fact, He said just the opposite. His word says, ‘Be truly glad!...these trials…

— Joel Osteen

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run…

— Abraham Lincoln

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

— Ad Reinhardt

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

— Michael Bloomberg

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

— Marc Chagall

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

— Thomas Lansing Masson

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.

— Bryan Stevenson

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite.

— Lou Krieger