Polar Opposites Quotes

• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Marriage, Sentimental

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

  Andy Warhol

  Opposites, Two, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.

  Colleen Hoover

  Hate, Passion, Opposites

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “This Girl”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.

  Trey Parker

  Simple, Law, Opposites

  "Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Justice, Demand

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press

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• Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Power, Justice, Demand

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press

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• Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

  Suze Orman

  Relationship, Opposites, May

  Suze Orman (2005). “The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke”, p.350, Penguin

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• Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.

  Andy Warhol

  Reality, Love Is, Commercial Art

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

  Andy Warhol

  Love, Reality, Opposites

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Stupid, Opposites, Two

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• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
  purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love Is, Opposites, Justice

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• The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

  RuPaul

  Night, Masculine And Feminine, Opposites

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind goes on dividing everything into polarities, opposites. Nothing is opposite in existence; every contradiction is only apparent. Deep down all contradictions are meeting together.

  Rajneesh

  Night, Opposites, Mind

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• Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.

  Vera Nazarian

  Passion, Opposites, Two

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• Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious. This intuitive or relaxed approach to study is the polar opposite of traditional and mainstream forms of education.

  James Morcan

  Opposites, Two, Mind

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• What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fate, Opposites, Choices

  Jeanette Winterson (2010). “Weight”, p.97, Canongate Books

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

  Alexandra Roach

  Opposites, Scare, Transformation

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• It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Pride, Emotional

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.

  Criss Jami

  Love Is, Opposites, Doubt

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.96, Criss Jami

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• Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.

  Ezra Koenig

  Rap, Thinking, Opposites

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Eddie Huang

  Opposites, People, Perspective

  Eddie Huang (2013). “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir”, p.105, Spiegel & Grau

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• Having a child is the polar opposite experience of the awards season experience. The awards-season experience requires you to be out in the community, in the heart of the community, at the nucleus of the film community in a really committed way for about a six-month period of time. Having a child requires you to nest, to be in your home, and to create and make your home and environment that is one that is potentially very welcoming and nurturing for a child.

  Mahershala Ali

  Children, Home, Heart

  "New spotlight, new baby for Oscars-bound Mahershala Ali". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 17, 2017.

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• On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Son, Thinking, Opposites

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• How did thie person-someone I'd imagined would be my polar opposite-always seem to find the things that would make me the happiest?

  Kiera Cass

  Opposites, Would Be, Persons

  Kiera Cass (2013). “The Elite”, p.18, Harper Collins

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