Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses. — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the… — Will Self Copy Share Image
There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions" — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation. — Sting Copy Share Image
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful. — Horace Copy Share Image
There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that… — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
What bothers me is that I don't see the eagerness for a genuine solution to the political people on the opposite side.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him. — Linda Evans Copy Share Image
The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whoever will listen will hear the speaking heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis… — John Quiggin Copy Share Image
Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. Theres a plus side and a minus side, and… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
An absolute being would be irrelevant to the world, as it couldn't create it. Any action, or causal process that would involve… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
