Quotes About Opposite

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty

Love is supposed to start with bells ringing and go downhill from there. But it was the opposite for me. There's an intense connection between us, and as we stayed together, the bells rang louder.

Then we come from opposite but similar worlds, don't we?

In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?

Zwei Seiten Eines läßt sich nicht bestreiten: Jede Sache hat zwei Seiten. — Die der andern, das ist eine, Und die richtige Seite, deine.

And death is the opposite of possibility.

It is a library of possibility. And death is the opposite of possibility. Understand?

Populism is the radical opposite of conservatism,

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time — toward the same object, the same person — want to harm and want to do good.

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.

If someone said 'diametrically,' could 'opposed' be far behind?

She was so far from his type she might as well have been another species.

How do you react to something like that? How? How do you react when you find out the exact opposite of what you've been telling yourself is true?

There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture. It can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to mistrust, and this mistrusts in turn brings forth war.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

I just don't trust people who have bodies that change with their moods. Well then you'll never trust the opposite sex again.

Man could not love if he were unable to choose love, and with this choice came the ability to choose love's opposite.

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

Hence, the new operating principle was simple: do the opposite of what they (Obama, but the Bush neocons, too) would do. Their behavior, their conceits, their ideas - in some sense even their backgrounds, education and class -- were all suspect. And, what's more, you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.

Trump was the one variable that, in management terms, simply could not be controlled. He was like a recalcitrant two-year-old. If you tried to control him, it would only have the opposite effect.

Then Ellie found herself sitting at a table in the bar of the Algonquin Hotel, back in New York City. Nadine was sitting opposite her.

God always listens to my prayers, then does the exact opposite.

Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.