Top 1200 Complete Opposites Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

When the believer is faced with a decision regarding a questionable matter, he should never proceed unless he has complete peace about it. If there is nothing wrong with it, then God is able to give complete peace.

When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

I put it into my mind to become a complete player, a complete player.

Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.

We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.

Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again.

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.

It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.

'Fidaa' completely sticks to being a love story. It doesn't have any digressions. Opposites attract, they say.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.

There is no world of absolute, complete privacy or a world of complete national security.

Mourinho and Zidane are very different, one could say they are opposites. But it's not like one is bad and the other is good.

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.

True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.

They say opposites attract, which is possibly why I am very much attracted to Nicholas Parsons.

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.

Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious.

There's always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we'd probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that's almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

I'm happy to be thought of as cool, but I never was cool. Everyone thought I was this complete moron and complete dork for the majority of my school years.

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment.

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

If I'm opening up for George Jones or playing a complete honky-tonk, I do true country music. But if it's a complete rock club, I'll do some country and a little bit of this hillbilly acoustic country metal or whatever it's called.

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.

True, you're the weakest of us all, but you're still one of the five, and there is power in collecting the complete set." He paused, then grinned. "The complete Set! That's funny! Now let's consume your energy and entomb your soul, shall we?

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.

Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.

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.

Take all the Syrians, for example. They are where they need to be. They don't need saving. They are having their experiences and they're completing what they need to complete within this human element, in this complete illusion.

I'm not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I'll accept that. But I'm not a complete psychopath.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

I pray that all polar opposites learn to agape love, live, and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools.

Opposites generally create intense chemistry. There are more chances of fireworks when different people are together than similar personalities.

We should not confuse complete faith in God with complete faith in our ability to discern God's voice.

Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.

There's two extremes in male sport: there's complete and total worship of them, or complete and utter contempt. Those extremes create huge problems at either end. And it creates distance, too, and leads them into a bubble.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites.

We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.