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opposites funny-things envy
Robert M. Pirsig The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.
opposites differences judging
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.
opposites water gold
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.
opposites telling-the-truth
Nelson Eddy In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
opposites common-sense decision
Julian Barnes He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.
opposites complete-opposites
Keren Ann I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.
opposites grace world
Nicole Krauss And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.
opposites shadow trying
Nicole Krauss In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing.
grace sin holy
Richard Baxter As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.
grace arbitrary divine
Rebecca West The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.
grace innocent divine
William Wordsworth But who is innocent? By grace divine, Not otherwise,O Nature! we are thine.
grace knows
Rob Bell Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.
grace may incredibles
Tullian Tchividjian Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
grace way christianity
Robert Jeffress Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.
grace grace-of-god dies
Joni Eareckson Tada When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.
grace insult sleazes
John Bradford There but for the grace of God go I
grace strange found
John Archibald Wheeler If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
worldwide
Christine Johnson Going forward, you're going to see a lot more from Timex, from branding all the way down to promotional programs, and it's really going to be on the worldwide level,
world missions composer
Richard D. James A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.
world encounters virtue
Lord Shaftesbury As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.
world hearing salt
Robert Collier We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.
world this-world blanket
Rob Thurman We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.
world superstar ridiculous
Rob Sheffield 'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.
world worthwhile variety
Richard P. Feynman Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.
world evolution newton
Richard Dawkins Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.
world objective-truth materials
Richard Dawkins Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.