Opposites Quotes
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I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.
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There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.
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Opposites are complementary.
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You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the costumes on before you start and feel the weight of them, which is great. But then you're opposite some of the greatest actors in the world and away you go. You find your imagination takes over without you really even thinking about it.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.
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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
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I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.
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Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
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As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.
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I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil. Evil is the willingness to do damage to the other; its maximal expression is murder, but it includes a great deal of subtle and not-so-subtle injuries as it advances to that extreme. Evil acts reduce the other to an object, a being to its component parts, and obliterate subjectivity. Evil's breeding ground is a lack of empathy.
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Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.
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A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.
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Work is the opposite of creativity.
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
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Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.
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All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
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Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.
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It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
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We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.
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I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
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Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.
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The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.
