Opposites Quotes · Page 39

We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our…

— Michio Kushi

Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the…

— Tom Ford

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite…

— Thomas Sowell

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

— Anonymous

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

— Graham Swift

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

— Florence King

“Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.”

— Neal Stephenson

So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the…

— Richard Rodriguez

As long as the National Socialist Movement is leading Germany-and that will be the case for the next few centuries, no matter…

— Adolf Hitler

We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to…

— David Lynch

Everyone we attract into our life is a mirror for us in certain ways. All of our relationships reflect certain parts of…

— Shakti Gawain

The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It…

— John Templeton

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case:…

— Ulrich Beck

It's the opposite on a sitcom. People crave the character to not learn from their mistakes. They want to just see the…

— Ty Burrell

Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that…

— A. R. Rahman

Emotional dependence is the opposite of emotional strength. It means needing to have others to survive, wanting others to "do it for…

— Sue Thoele

You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the…

— Ray Winstone

At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know…

— Emma Donoghue

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love…

— Reynolds Price

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for…

— Byron Katie

The interesting thing about it to me is the mindset. With all these "helpers" running around, they talk about doing deals. We…

— Charlie Munger

This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top…

— Slavoj Žižek

We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that…

— Assata Shakur

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

— Edmund Snow Carpenter

“When I see your light pieces with my dark pieces, I begin to understand why they say opposites attract.”

— Amanda Lovelace

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the…

— Alex Steffen

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

— Tim Allen

It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've…

— Frederick Lenz

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

— Heraclitus

I know I said this all before, but opposites attract, we try and run away but end up running back.

— Anonymous

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

— Massimo Vignelli

Some people want to feel comfortable when they're performing; I'm kind of the opposite.

— Guillermo E. Brown

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of…

— James Broughton

Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and…

— Lee Carroll

I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually…

— Matt Taibbi

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This…

— Dani Shapiro

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man…

— Terry Pratchett

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and…

— Bob Ross

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up…

— Jean-Paul Sartre