Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Kreeft

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

Peter Kreeft

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Peter Kreeft

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Penelope Cruz

I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.

Pema Chodron

In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.

Pete Postlethwaite

There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.

Pythagoras

Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

Kofi Annan

Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or even undermine economic growth. In fact, the opposite is true: unless we protect resources and the earth's natural capital, we shall not be able to sustain economic growth.

Kim Ki-duk

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

Kelly Lynch

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

Keith Haring

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

Lewis H. Lapham

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

Lewis Carroll

As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

Paul Tillich

[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.

Paul Krugman

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

Paul Mazursky

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

Patton Oswalt

With a comedian, it's the opposite. You put that album out, and they've heard it. If they're coming out to see you, you'd better be doing new stuff. There's always a tiny part of the audience that want to hear certain bits of yours, or they've brought friends to see you, and they've told them about some of your bits. Then maybe you should do them.

Elliott Erwitt

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Ellen Hopkins

Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.

Jonathan Haidt

Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

Jonathan Franzen

Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.

James Macdonald

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

James Madison

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

James Madison

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

John Morrison

It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly.

Joan Robinson

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Gayle Forman

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Livy

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

Malcolm Forbes

Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.

Malcolm Bradbury

To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.