Opposites Quotes

• Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Feelings
  • Emotion
  • Worst

• The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Temptation
  • Satan

• Opposites are cures for opposites.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Opposites
  • Cures

• If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Good
  • Success
  • Model

• In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.

  

  Karan Bajaj
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, "Take that, Lipitor."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Medicine

• Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Health
  • Ideas

• Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Opposites
  • Equilibrium
  • Disorder

• You focus on the here and now in order to escape existence forever and vanish into Nirvana. There is another religious impulse that is the opposite of this. It uses a world elsewhere in order to affirm life and give a reason to "go forth and multiply".

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Life
  • World
  • Focus

• The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Moments
  • Depression
  • Vitality

• There's a word like overprotective to describe some parents, but no word that means the opposite. What word do you use to describe parents who don't protect enough? Underprotective? Neglectful? Self-involved? Lame? All of the above.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Parents
  • Mean
  • Self

• There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Home
  • Responsibility
  • Air

• Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

  

  Pythagoras
  • Music
  • Opposites
  • Harmonization

• Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Giving
  • Actors
  • Given

• When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Prayer
  • Ignored

• Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Together
  • Fun

• The outcome, if successful, in both alchemy and individuation is a union of opposites—the coniunctionis or transcendent function—leading to alchemical gold, the philosopher’s stone, the elixir of life, or, in Jungian terms, the Self.

  

  Gary Lachman Blondie
  • Philosopher
  • Opposites
  • Outcome

• Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Evolution

• Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Liberty
  • Economic
  • Capitalism

• Everything is known through its opposite.

  

  Dane Rudhyar
  • Known
  • Opposites

• The marriages come and go but your friendships stay, which is the opposite of what it used to be, so that there will be people in our lives for 30 years and often it is not your husband, it's your women friends, male friends with whom you come of age.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • People
  • Age
  • Husband

• Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Done
  • Movie

• Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

  

  Rollo May
  • Opposites
  • Cowardice
  • Conformity

• We've known each other in Motorpsycho since 1985 or '86, are really different as personalities, and yet have actually never disagreed to any degree. We are really complimentary as musicians and songwriters too, and come from two total opposites in our approaches.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Musicians
  • Opposites
  • Personalities

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