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Tag Name "Opposite" (1279)

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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.
John Stossel
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I used to be like Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for? But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite.
Joel Kinnaman
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I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.
Maiara Walsh
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Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief.
Leslie Weatherhead
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The opposite of humility is arrogance--the belief that we are wiser or better than others. Arrogance promotes separation rather than community. It looms like a brick wall between us and those from whom we could learn.
John Templeton
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I'm keeping myself to myself. And I like it that way. I'm not hunting. I'm the opposite of a - what would a male cougar be? Is there such a thing? Whatever it is, I'm not that.
Liam Neeson
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A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about that.
John Turturro
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Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
John Avlon
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Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden in His manifestation, manifest in His concealing.
Mansur Al-Hallaj
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My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.
Linda Evans
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The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
John Berger
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Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.
Jeffrey Kluger
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...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.
Lisa Kleypas
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I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
John Coltrane
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In so many ways I am the opposite of Jesus' lifestyle. This keeps me up at night. I can't have authentic communion with Him while mired in the trappings He begged me to avoid.
Jen Hatmaker
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Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
Livy
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How did thie person-someone I'd imagined would be my polar opposite-always seem to find the things that would make me the happiest?
Kiera Cass
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It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization.
John F. Kennedy
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Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.
Jens Spahn
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There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.
Lord Byron
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