Opposites Quotes - Page 22

• I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

  Fred Ward

  Letting Go, Sex, Growing Up

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• To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Party, Impressive, Heresy

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• My experience is the opposite.

  Byron Katie

  Peace

  "Loving Without Exception". OMEGA Interview, www.eomega.org. March 18, 2015.

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• Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.

  Eben Pagan

  Success, Long, Different

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• I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Parent, Comedian, Lifestyle

  "'Fat' Dad Jim Gaffigan On Kids, Comedy And Apartment Living". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.

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• I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Teaching, Taught Us

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

  B. F. Skinner

  Jesus, Men, Practice

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• We live in a big world, and it is important for us to be aware of culture other than our own. Learn something new, whether you think you're interested in it or not. That's the opposite of having a closed mind or a closed door.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Doors, Mind

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• Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated with having no curve or turn-a straight course, track, or path. Procrastination would be the very opposite of straightway. To procrastinate is to put off intentionally and habitually something that should be done. Procrastination is unproductive delay.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Procrastination, Mean, Curves

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.

  Rosa Parks

  Fall, Steps, Easy

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• In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Artist, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.52, e-artnow

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• The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

  Gayle Forman

  Coins, Flip, Sides

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Year”, p.168, Penguin

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• It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Way, Morality, Easy

  Alexander McCall Smith (2006). “The Right Attitude to Rain”, p.29, Anchor

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• The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.

  Howard Dean

  United States, Want, Consistent

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• I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.

  Andrew Solomon

  Vitality, Want, Too Much

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• This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of promise, the dwindling of the days,the inevitability of the fading, the dying of the brightness. Blue nights are the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but they are also its warning.

  Joan Didion

  Book, Night, Blue

  Joan Didion (2011). “Blue Nights”, p.4, Vintage

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• There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Fear, Hate, Two

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• Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The opposite is true. Proverbs reveals that God does not make all people’s decisions for them, but rather expects them to use his gift of reason to interpret the circumstances and events of life within the framework of revelation that he has given. Yet when they have exercised their responsibility in decision-making, they can look back and see that the sovereign God has guided.

  Graeme Goldsworthy

  Spiritual, Mean, Responsibility

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• It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

  Martin Van Creveld

  War, Mean, Fighting

  Martin Van Creveld (2009). “Transformation of War”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.

  Jill Vialet

  Play

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• Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.

  Daisy Whitney

  Sometimes

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• The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Play, Dumb, Advantage

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• Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.

  Anuj

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.

  Jay Crownover

  Fire, Cities, Enough

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• We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Commitment, Practice, Democracy

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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