We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken. — John Wilbanks Copy Share Image
In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even… — George Soros Copy Share Image
As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance. — Richard Garriott Copy Share Image
I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still… — Jack Welpott Copy Share Image
None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
I'm keeping myself to myself. And I like it that way. I'm not hunting. I'm the opposite of a - what would… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch… — Greg Maddux Copy Share Image
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
I will be in Melbourne, Florida, and I just heard the crowds are massive that want to be there. I turn on… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming.… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite… — Dido Armstrong Copy Share Image
You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite. — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating… — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
