Opposites Quotes

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?

When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

I will say that Bernie Sanders are the opposite end of the spectrum from Donald Trump. We see him leading right now in the Republican Party in an intractable way.

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese.

"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change.

What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.

As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.

I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

Tension of opposites.

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.

The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.

My soul is the bridge between spirit and body and, as such, is a uniter of opposites. Without soul at center, I would either transcend into spirit or become mired in matter.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved.

A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'

In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.