Opposites Quotes
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.
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.
My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report 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.
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.
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.
What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.
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.
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.
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
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.
I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible.
People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.
Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.
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.
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.
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
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.
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.
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved.
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.
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.