Opposites Quotes
The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.
Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.
Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.
We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true.
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.
Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.
I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.
I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.
So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.
Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.
People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.
I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.
Rather than incorporating study into life, I've done the opposite. I've turned life into study. Where events take me? That's what I dive in to learn.
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.
