Quotes about opposites
opposites people world
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. Don Bluth
opposites facts stories
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 Sedaris
opposites years people
People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite. David R. Brower
opposites disrespectful reason
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 Callen
opposites justice poverty
The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. Bryan Stevenson
opposites people becoming-an-adult
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite. Chad Harbach
opposites long people
People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour. Jane Austen
opposites anxiety forever
Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever. Alan Watts
opposites play effort
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.
opposites spirituality holy
A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
opposites jumping risk
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. Akshay Kumar
opposites errors obedience
To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience. Aiden Wilson Tozer
opposites fabulous feels
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. Chita Rivera
opposites cities london
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. China Mieville
opposites perfect ugly
Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. Edmund Burke
opposites want doe
Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite. Eckhart Tolle
opposites birth-life life-is
Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
opposites two people
I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome. Elif Safak
opposites democracy way
For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy. Elie Wiesel
opposites i-hate-my-life apathy
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
opposites i-hate-my-life apathy
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
opposites brain stories
See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else." But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain. Edward Norton
opposites rights government
Our rights are not granted by governments,” Snowden said. “They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy. Edward Snowden
opposites needs way
The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth. Brian Greene
opposites two triangles
It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively. Archimedes
opposites acting realization
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge. Archibald MacLeish
opposites mirrors dancing
What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.
opposites
The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite. Ashley Madekwe
opposites long principles
we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete with the trust companies' huge resources, etc. The facts are quite the opposite. It may be that the institutions are better equipped than the individual to speculate in the market.But I am convinced that an individual investor with sound principles, and soundly advised, can do distinctly better over the long pull than large institutions. Benjamin Graham
opposites nuggets littles
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. Jane Haddam
opposites advice soul
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. Caitlin Thomas
opposites self psychology
The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine Carl Jung
opposites half world
When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.