Quotes about opposites
opposites water gold
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things. Rebecca Solnit
opposites people secret
I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great. Ray Lewis
opposites advertising mass
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons. Stephanie Mills
opposites definitions sin
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. Soren Kierkegaard
opposites existence concepts
Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning. Stephenie Meyer
opposites way action
The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate. Stephen Colbert
opposites unity wavering
The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. Virgil
opposites feel-good feelings
Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling. Willard Gaylin
opposites body chess
In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't. Vladimir Kramnik
opposites imagination normal
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos. Wallace Stevens
opposites doubt finals
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. Salman Rushdie
opposites generosity community
Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune. Twyla Tharp
opposites people gentleman
I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister Wilfrid Laurier
opposites expression wave
"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions" Walter Russell
opposites balance becoming
Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.
opposites faithful luck
There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off. William Matthews
opposites simplicity latter
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. William Shenstone
opposites campaigns competence
Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.' William J. Clinton
opposites choices despair
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices. Warren G. Bennis
opposites race earth
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam. Saint Augustine
opposites sides fanatics
A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side. Will Rogers
opposites differences judging
The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced. Virginia Woolf
opposites two people
Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.