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Quotes About Opposite

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Because love and hate were supposed to stand cleanly on opposite sides of the spectrum. The division seemed as clear as...well, angels and demons would once have seemed to her. Not anymore.
~ Lauren Kate
I do not admire the excess of a virtue as of valour, except I see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who had the greatest valour and the greatest kindness. For otherwise it is not to rise, it is to fall. We do not display greatness by going to one extreme, but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space.
~ Blaise Pascal
Two contrary reasons . We must begin with that, otherwise we cannot understand anything and everything is heretical. And even at the end of each truth we must add that we are bearing the opposite truth in mind.
~ Blaise Pascal
In a world of fugitives The person taking the opposite direction Will appear to run away.
~ T.S. Eliot
Pain is the opposite of joy But joy is a kind of pain
~ T.S. Eliot
Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.
~ Tahir Shah
How ironic! We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.
~ Justin Cronin
But darkness, too, really existed, as light's opposite pole.
~ K?ji Suzuki
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you.
~ Kami Garcia
In 'Nach... ', I go all out, but 'Saraswati... ' is an introvert character. The two things are totally opposite.
~ Gautam Rode
There doesn't seem to be a relationship between budget and comedy. In fact, it might be inverse.
~ Kyle Gass
That's all the Joker is. It's Batman without love. The Riddler is the opposite of that. It's the detective in him.
~ Tom King
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).
~ Frank Mankiewicz
The first meeting of the Fraternitus Bad-Boyificus was also to be my first fighting lesson. I made a fist and showed it to Eldric. "Fistibus Briony." I shook my fist. "Eldric terrorificorumest?" "Terrific? I'm terrific!" "Not terrific!" I said. "Quite the opposite. Listen carefully: terrorificorum." "Hmm," said Eldric. "Grant me patience, O Jupiter Magnificum!" "Not terrified!" shouted Eldric at last. "never terrified of Briony's fistibus!" We laughed and laughed.
~ Franny Billingsley
When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.
~ Freddie Highmore
The more she thought of it, the more that luck seemed the opposite of being awesome. One was something you did; the other was something that happened to you no matter what you did. Course
~ Brandon Sanderson
Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, "The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.
~ Brene Brown
But Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, "The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.
~ Brene Brown
As Stuart Brown says, "The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.
~ Brene Brown
In philosophy, the opposite of truth is error; in Scripture, the opposite of truth is a lie.
~ Brennan Manning
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Yo creo que no hay nada, ni tan siquiera el crimen, más opuesto a la poesía, a la filosofía, a la vida misma, que este incesante trabajar.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To project yourself into a consciousness of a person essentially your opposite requires the audacity of great genius; and even men of genius are cautious in approaching the problem.
~ Henry James