To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I could see how easy it would be to fall into loving Bella. It would be exactly like falling: effortless. Not letting… — Anonymous 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
Any man that hits a woman is not a real man, he's a coward. With my wife Jodi, I think it's my… — Kian Egan Copy Share Image
If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to… — Robin Green Copy Share Image
Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite… — Claudia Gray 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
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy -… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of just trying to impress my nieces, who think I work for the bus company because they saw… — Jeremy Piven Copy Share Image
The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for… — Mark Twain 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
One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We live in a polarized world of contrived dualisms, dichotomies and paradoxes: light vs. dark and good vs. evil. We as Mexic… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I dont mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if Im in the middle of a restaurant… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning… — Herbert Bayard Swope Copy Share Image
Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction." I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a "hard" job. That person will be eager to get started,… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
To adjoin the instinctual nature does not mean to come undone, change everything from left to right, from black to white, to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
This is why there is not any artist who takes Internet as the theme. My position is quite the opposite to the… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
