Horace Quotes, Opposites Quotes, Trying Quotes

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Opposites Quotes , Trying Quotes

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Running Quotes , Opposites Quotes

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Opposites Quotes , Anxiety Quotes

The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Opposites Quotes , Competition Quotes

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Opposites Quotes , Silence Quotes

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Opposites Quotes

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sex Quotes , Opposites Quotes

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Views Quotes , Opposites Quotes

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Dog Quotes , Opposites Quotes

Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Opposites Quotes , Transformation Quotes

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Akshay Kumar Quotes , Opposites Quotes , Jumping Quotes

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Life Quotes , Opposites Quotes

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Errors Quotes , Opposites Quotes

Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Book Quotes , Opposites Quotes

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Running Quotes , Opposites Quotes

Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Religious Quotes , Opposites Quotes

To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A.C. Grayling Quotes , Believe Quotes , Opposites Quotes

We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Pain Quotes , Opposites Quotes

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Greatness Quotes , Opposites Quotes

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aaron Sorkin Quotes , Athlete Quotes , Opposites Quotes