A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“(On duality) Nothing can exist for us without its opposite—for even absence itself becomes a presence through the contrast of what is… — Alyssa Skyes Copy Share Image
My accomplishments do not live up to my tennis game. Most people have to work really hard and win some big matches,… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
...that left Francesca to slink into the chair opposite us. My feeling of superiority was short-lived, however, when she settled herself down… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday. — Eugene Ormandy Copy Share Image
You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite… — Luke Wilson Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
When I was 15, what I wanted in a boyfriend was just that confidence and swagger. I wanted someone who knew what… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations),… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Miami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here - its the opposite. Im practical, where this place… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In… — Nicholas Ray Copy Share Image
The stage is the opposite: you are talking loud so you can project to the back row and you know the whole… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset. — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too… — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
