Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

William Matthews

There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off.

William Shenstone

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

William J. Clinton

Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

Rebecca De Mornay

There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.

Richard Ford

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

Rich Lowry

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Richard Rohr

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

Richard Dawkins

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

Rosemary Palmer

He knew our feelings. At this point we have to put in enough military or get out. Preferably get out.

David Towne

I think their feelings were that a deal's a deal. But I think they said they would think about it.

Jessica Huggins

We're proud of how we played, but it's still disappointing. There are no good feelings because we played good enough to win.

Kevin Constantine

We took the least 20 banged up guys and put them on the ice. I don't really have any feelings about it at all. We needed to rest some guys and that's what we did.

Marvin Moss

I think a lot about last year's game and how we felt afterward. Those two games are the two worst feelings I've had here.

Dennis Hastert

I think Tom Reynolds may have been talking about what his feelings are,

George Parnham

I have bittersweet feelings about (the remarriage). I told Rusty a number of years ago that, obviously, there has to come a point in where he gets on with his life. Andrea has to get on with hers.

Ricardo Khan

He gave voice to so many feelings that so many people had.

Rob Brown

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

Tim Allen

It bolsters the perception that this administration relies too much on spin.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Robert Delaunay

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

Wallace Stevens

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

William Blake

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Samuel Dash

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

Samuel Beckett

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Salman Rushdie

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.