“For instance, I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations),… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Children who have been very sadistically abused over the long-term are able to dissociate, some of them are able to dissociate as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
When you're working with film, you can only shoot one angle at a time, and then everything has to stop, and you… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really… — Panda Bear Copy Share Image
A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command… — Daniel Hack Tuke Copy Share Image
The path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite.… — Al Jaffee Copy Share Image
Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My single young friends, we counsel you to channel your associations with the opposite sex into dating patterns that have the potential… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause… — Henry Franklin Floyd Copy Share Image
It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I think that's why Donald Trump continues to enjoy evangelical support. They're not endorsing necessarily his lifestyle. What they're saying is this… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Raphael lifted a finger, tracing it over her cheekbone. She flinched. Not because he was hurting her. The opposite. The places he… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Some people make you feel better about living. Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God.… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin.… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the… — Michael Tanner Copy Share Image
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
