Opposites Quotes

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Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are… — Arianna Huffington
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you are training properly, you should progress steadily. This doesn't necessarily mean a personal best every time you race ... Each training session should… — Grete Waitz
There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a… — Niels Bohr
Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth. — Eckhart Tolle
A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would… — Charley Reese
Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they prevent this country from… — Bill Maher
Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must… — Hippocrates
Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction. — Richard Saul Wurman
There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending… — Orson Scott Card
Repel the thought, for if you don't, it becomes an idea. So repel the idea, for if you don't it will become a desire. So… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the… — George Orwell
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar… — Michel de Montaigne
In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these,… — Thomas Jefferson
Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every… — Corey Taylor
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do… — Jacques Barzun
As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things… — Wynn Bullock
All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings.… — John Berger
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides,… — Anna Quindlen
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes… — Wendell Berry
Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be forced into anyone's mind except… — Mortimer Adler
Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a… — Kanye West

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