Opposites Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Self, Conflict

  Eli Siegel (1981). “Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism”, Definition Pr

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• You know that scenario where roses are red, leaves are green, I love arguing that. ‘Why should they be?’. I hate rules and formulas. That’s so boring. It’s the opposite of creativity. Rules are ridiculous things that are meant to be broken.

  Philip Treacy

  Hate, Creativity, Broken

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• In reality opposites are one; art shows this.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Reality, Shows

  "Everything Has to Do with Hardness and Softness" by Eli Siegel, 1969.

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• I'm something totally different. There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.

  Samantha Mumba

  Attitude, Artist, Blue

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• Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Successful, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.419, Penguin

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• Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

  Felix Morley

  Political, Federalism, Definitions

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• Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.

  Pierre Charron

  Pain, Laughing, Faces

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• Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I won't die. If I buy six cars, I won't die. If I hate Jews, I won't die. If I hate homosexuals, I won't die." They think they will increase their life by shunting misery onto somebody else, but it's just the opposite.

  Maya Angelou

  Nice, Hate, Thinking

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• The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

  Eli Siegel

  Art, Self, Oneness

  Eli Siegel (1981). “Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism”, Definition Pr

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• All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

  Eli Siegel

  Eli Siegel (1968). “James and the children: a consideration of Henry James's The turn of the screw”, Definition Pr

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• Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Development, World, Way

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• If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite.

  Dennis McKinsey

  Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophy

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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

  People, Perspective, Pieces

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

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• What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

  Richard Harding Davis

  Men, Mirrors, Looks

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• Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.

  Vaughn Walker

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Opponents of same-sex marriage to file appeal in California case". www.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Facts, Complicated, Possession

  Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.113, Random House

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• If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.

  Bella Pollen

  Country, Perseverance, Hard Work

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.

  Michio Kushi

  Arrogance, Dissolving, Knows

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