I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We all know those who draw their boundaries carefully and say, "I'm only human. Nobody's perfect. I accept my limitations." And we… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
You come from the NRL and it's a forwards-dominated game, I think, at the moment. You get three sets and kick and… — Joel Monaghan Copy Share Image
The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
…all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Just because I choose to question religion doesn't mean that I'm spitting in God's face; it's the opposite. I'm tired of people… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo… — Rhea Perlman Copy Share Image
I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the… — John Hughlings Jackson Copy Share Image
There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was… — Slash Copy Share Image
We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Back in the day, music imitated life. Now it's the opposite way around: life is imitating music. It's like whatever the rappers… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn't… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
For many of us, the opposite of talking isn't listening. It's waiting. When others speak, we typically divide our attention between what… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
