Opposites Quotes
Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.
I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.
Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.
I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.
Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.
I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.
People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it the opposite. I find that people want to talk.
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.
As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites.
In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.
What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.
The pathway to enlightenment is joyful. It may sound harsh. I suggest just the opposite. It is rather easy compared to the possibilities of staying in pain and illusion.
Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.
Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.
In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.
Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.
I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.
You need strategies that help rule things out. That's the opposite of saying, "This is what my gut is telling me; let me gather information to confirm it."
I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.
Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.
As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.
When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
Some people want to feel comfortable when they're performing; I'm kind of the opposite.
Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.
Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.
There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.
The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.
No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.
Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.