It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same… — Horace Kallen Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
We ought to be able to persuade on opposite sides of a question; as also we ought in the case of arguing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
I'm always making things, and I have this ongoing practice of compelling stuff that strikes me. Over the course of my life… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
