Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Virginia Woolf

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.

Tracy Austin

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

Rebecca Solnit

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.

Sam Walton

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

William Hamilton Maxwell

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

Neale Donald Walsch

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

Joseph Addison

Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

Larry Petersen

I'd be scared to think of the number.

Larry Rogers

He had to be scared for his life.

Sarah Wayne Callies

I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

Sara Shepard

Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.

Ursula Andress

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

Sarah Dessen

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

Sarah Dessen

It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

Vince Staples

I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower.

Will Durant

Education is the transformation of civilisation

Tullian Tchividjian

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

Saul Bellow

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Louise Erdrich

The universe is transformation.

Nhat Hanh

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Karl Marx

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Paul Eldridge

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Elizabeth Gilbert

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

Eckhart Tolle

There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes.