Quotes About Opposite

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

she sat opposite, watching me (as I thought) and endeavouring to sustain something like a conversation — consisting chiefly of a succession of commonplace remarks, expressed with frigid formality: but this might be more my fault than hers, for I really could not converse.

If goodness does exist, then I'm the opposite of it. I'm evil, and I revel in it

He was shaking his head, biting into his lower lip, fighting the sheer misery of the anticipation, when he realized that another figure was standing directly opposite, on the other side of the fire, quite visible above the leaping flames, gazing at him.

You'll help me? I told you, I have once more come to your rescue. Like a deus ex machina, I appear where I'm most needed. You don't seem the slightest bit godlike to me, she observed. Quite the opposite, as a matter of fact.

all right. It's been a pleasure. Oh, forgive me if I offended you by my laughter. Sometimes it just comes out, I can't help it. Mind you, usually I'm not cheerful at all, just the opposite. The thing is I've always found people who describe themselves by insulting others very funny. Have a nice day.

When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

In de muur tegenover die waar alle andere namen gegraveerd stonden, zag ze één enkele naam, en die was duidelijk niet Skandisch. Het was ook geen mannennaam. Lydia keek er uitgebreid naar. 'Evanlyn.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

In many cases it is not one series of consequences will serve the turn, but many different and opposite deductions must be examined and laid together, before a man can come to make a right judgment of the point in question. What then can be expected from men that neither see the want of any such kind of reasoning as this, nor, if they do, know they how to set about it, or could perform it?

Used as rocket fuel, sex energy can lift our consciousness to the stars to experience a state of being where love exists in and for itself and has no opposite. On a soul level, this is our natural state.

When a long abuse of power is corrected, it is generally replaced by an opposite violence. In the new dispensation all that was good in what went before is tarred indiscriminately with the bad.

You will wonder at me, but these public affairs have half killed me. You know I can't take things quietly. Your complaint and mine, Fanny, are just opposite. For weeks and weeks, in my feverish state, I never closed my eyes without suffering 'punishment' under eternal articles of peace and unending lists of provisional governments. Do you wonder?

If the universe had been bent on handling an example of the exact opposite of who I was, it couldn't have found a better one.

We might have been two opposite halves of one thing, complementary and conflicted.

I'm so sorry," he said, because after Pamela died, he promised himself that if anyone told him the smallest, saddest story, he would answer, I'm so sorry. Meaning, Yes, that happened. You couldn't believe the people who believed that not mentioning sadness was a kind of magic that could stave off the very sadness you didn't mention – as though grief were the opposite of Rumpelstiltskin and materialized only at the sound of its own name.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

I am the opposite of a snob." Jack laughed a long time. "You think being a reverse snob is not being a snob? Olive, you're a snob.

Galileo died in 1642. He was buried in Florence in the Church of Santa Croce, directly opposite the tomb of Michelangelo. This is only right, since together they had remade the Renaissance world in a distinctly Platonist frame.

Aristotle's Politics, like his Metaphysics, turns Plato's system upside down.