Opposites Quotes · Page 6

The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power

— C. S. Lewis

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

— Richard Ford

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

— Jean Baudrillard

“competition and capitalism are opposites.”

— Peter Thiel

Autism is not a choice. Acceptance is. Imagine if the opposite was true.

— Stuart Duncan

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

— Pico Iyer

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

— Donald Hall

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

— Alexandra Roach

Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted,…

— Nelson Mandela

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise…

— Judith Jamison

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to…

— Akshay Kumar

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue…

— Anonymous

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to…

— Mike Thompson

Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

— Sheri Holman

“Opposites meet; extremes look alike. A top that is not rotating is motionless. The same top at its highest velocity also looks…

— Swami Satchidananda

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written…

— Alanis Morissette

One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the…

— Fred Upton

The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured.…

— D. H. Lawrence

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of…

— Hippocrates

“She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite.…

— Andre Breton

Physical fitness takes commitment to exercise just as it requires good nutrition. But it doesn't have to be painful. Just the opposite:…

— Jack LaLanne

Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all.…

— Charles Williams

Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely…

— Ernst Haeckel

The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same…

— Horace Kallen

I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if…

— Paul Polman

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me,…

— Rufus Wainwright

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

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

— David O. Selznick

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

— John Wilbanks

Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief.

— Leslie Weatherhead

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

— India Eisley

The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

— Frances Moore Lappé

In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

— Eli Siegel

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

— Martin Starr

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

— Wayne Dyer