Opposites Quotes

Opposites are cures for opposites.

I'm just trying to do the opposite of left, as long as there's the opposite of death, ya know Yes, ya test and I just might bring the opposite of life, til' there's no one the opposite of right

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

If you want to prevent abortions, you make sure everyone has health care, a high school education and birth control. Not the exact opposite.

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.

With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

The best way to battle fear is with courage. You have to look at the opposite of fear: Fear is scared of courage.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull.

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's partner.

With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.

The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.

Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

The opposite of compromise is character.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .

A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.