Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nawal El Saadawi

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

John Hammond

Katie's a really nice person. It's unfortunate she had a conflict of interest.

Dave Mitchell

I think it is a conflict to a lot of people. As far as perception goes it is a real problem.

Patrick Dougherty

There are six different things that conflict, ... And some of them are in the same paragraph.

Chris Cook

I think it's just a reminder of the high price our friends and relatives are paying in this conflict.

Bernd Pischetsrieder

There is no conflict between Porsche and Volkswagen. The idea that Porsche could, or would, prevent us from doing something that we think is the right thing to do, is simply not on.

Kofi Annan

hundreds of thousands more people are likely to become displaced as the conflict spreads and the drought worsens in the next two or three months.

Thomas Lee

He was up here to find someone he had a conflict with in the past.

Pat Walsh

The figure of 183,000 is (the commission's) upper-bound estimate of total conflict-related mortality.

Milan Kundera

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The beginnings of all things are small.

Plotinus

It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

Philip Pullman

All things from the north are devilish.

Haruki Murakami

We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

Delta Goodrem

I can't be all things to everyone.

John Wesley

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

Thales

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

Jack Kerouac

Something good will come of all things yet

Colin Channer

All things in the fulness of time