Opposites Quotes

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

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

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.

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

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

Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other.

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

I think it's fair to say that [Donald Trump] and I are sort of opposites in some ways.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived.

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.

What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?

Whatever anyone says, I think the opposite will happen.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!

In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

I don't want to not enjoy where I am at this very moment. So, every time I plan something the exact opposite happens. I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.

Try is the opposite of hiding.

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.

Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.