Opposites Quotes · Page 37

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

— John le Carre

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

— C. S. Lewis

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is…

— Frederick Lenz

As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.

— Frederic Tcheng

Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward.

— Ansel Elgort

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite.…

— RuPaul

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and…

— Steven Spielberg

It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just…

— DJ Spooky

I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the…

— Simone Elkeles

We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the…

— Robin Williams

I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to…

— Andrew Solomon

Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing…

— Scott McClellan

There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But…

— Jamaica Kincaid

As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life…

— Jonathon Porritt

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell…

— James Richardson

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It…

— Sydney J. Harris

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who…

— Joseph Addison

That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable,…

— Ken Wilber

Government relief tends constantly to get out of hand. And even when it is kept within reasonable bounds it tends to reduce…

— Henry Hazlitt

The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it…

— Frank Lampard

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

— Rosie O'Donnell

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a…

— Sammy Hagar

I saw on this nature show how the male elk douses himself with urine to smell sweeter to the opposite sex. What…

— Jack Handey

Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.

— Robert Prechter

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You…

— Mitch Hedberg

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

— Pierre Charron

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

— Anthony Lawlor

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

Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

— Frederick Lenz

In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.

— Viktor Schauberger

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is…

— Max Weber

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

— Elizabeth McGovern