Opposites Quotes · Page 20

In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained

— Higa Yuchoku

I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy.

— Michael Bloomberg

Number one, [Hillary Clinton] is weak. Number two, she has a hair trigger and it's just the opposite with me.

— Donald Trump

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

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one…

— Karen Thompson Walker

We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by…

— Sylvia Plath

Can you love without hate? Can you be happy without sadness? Can you learn without making mistakes? No, because all opposites exist.

— Ester Escaante

True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first,…

— Peter Kreeft

[The integrative system] deals with such matters as respect, legitimacy, community, friendship, affection, love, and of course their opposites, across a broad…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The personal qualities necessary for attaining office are practically the opposite of those demanded by the office itself. The trouble with the…

— James P. Hogan

Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd…

— Ben Gibbard

If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing,…

— Noam Chomsky

Don’t be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn’t do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father…

— Bill Johnson

The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that…

— Bashar al-Assad

Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite…

— Nando Parrado

You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them…

— PJ Harvey

Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing…

— Alice Miller

You look at the world situation, look at London, Paris, Italy, it is all basically the same as the U.S. Then you…

— Donna Karan

What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of…

— Charles Dickens

Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear…

— Zhuangzi

Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But…

— Neale Donald Walsch

…all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are…

— Ken Wilber

The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful…

— George R. R. Martin

We have to share the same taste in style, music, and the way of life. I don't believe opposites attract.

— Anonymous

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that…

— Andrew Solomon

While some couples are simply made for each other, it often seems that opposites attract.

— Pixarpedia

People think it's legalization, it's being sold as legalization-even though it's the opposite of legalization.

— Dennis Peron

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

— Niels Bohr

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

— Roger von Oech

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

— June Singer

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

— Leonardo da Vinci

There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh…

— Travis Barker

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

— Gary Zukav

When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they…

— Collin Peterson

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with…

— Peter Kreeft

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly…

— John Green

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

— Dag Hammarskjold

For every action there is an equally strong opposing idea that vibrates on the other end within them like the receiving side…

— Anonymous