Opposites Quotes

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  The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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  I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Strong, Hate

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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  The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

  Gary Zukav

  Love, Fear, Hate

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Feb 25, 2015

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• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

  Rumi

  Faith, Attitude, Mean

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

  Niels Bohr

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Imperfection, Desire

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.

  James Elkins

  Glimpse, Glances, Shows

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• The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

  May Sarton

  Mind, Minutes, Certain

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

  Plato

  Serious Things, Understood, Laughable

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.172, Cosimo, Inc.

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• With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

  Bill Pullman

  Romantic, Fun, Sleep

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• I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

  Bill Griffith

  Parent

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• We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

  Hulk Hogan

  Running, Ships

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• Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

  Arthur Keith

  Christianity, Cases, Made

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle.

  Neil LaBute

  Thinking, Victim, Middle

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• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

  Gary Zukav

  Giving, World, Action

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from May 14, 2012

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• The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

  Jim Hightower

  Courage, Flow, Conformity

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• You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

  Jose Bergamin

  Done, Said

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• Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

  Niels Bohr

  Technology, Years, Two

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• You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

  Ray Romano

  Character, Play, Different

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• If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Instinct, Ifs

  "Seinfeld". www.imdb.com. 1989–1998.

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• Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

  Paul Schrader

  Creativity, Artist, Doors

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• Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Disorder, Equilibrium

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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• Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Fundamentals, Ends

  "How to Parent an Introverted Child: An Interview With Susan Cain". Interview with Sil Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2013.

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• All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Color, Neighbors And Friends

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• Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

  Thomas Mann

  Beauty, Giving, Solitude

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.24, Vintage

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