Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

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

Alan Watts

But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

Alan Watts

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

Akshay Kumar

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.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

Chita Rivera

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

China Mieville

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

David Sedaris

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

David R. Brower

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

Bryan Callen

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

Bryan Stevenson

The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.

Chad Harbach

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

Caitlin Thomas

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

Eddie Huang

People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you’ve seen and the people you’ve met.

David Douglass

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

Deepika Padukone

I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.

Deb Caletti

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

Dido Armstrong

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

Bernard de Mandeville

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

Chance The Rapper

People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Charles Grodin

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

Bill Laswell

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

Bill Watterson

Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper, and I didn't benefit from the comparison.His footsteps seemed like good ones to follow, so I cultivated an interest in politics, and Borgman helped me a lot in learning how to construct an editorial cartoon. Neither of us dreamed I'd end up in the same town on the opposite paper.

bell hooks

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

Arundhati Roy

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

Ariel Pink

I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.

Diana Vreeland

Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held

Demetri Martin

I love motor learning because it's very basic and primal. A lot of what I like to learn correlates with the opposite of what gets you laid. I can ride a unicycle and I can juggle. These are unimpressive things to know.

Don Bluth

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

Alexandra Roach

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

Jane Haddam

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.