Opposites Quotes — Page 30

Writer, Scholar

“When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.”

Prayer Opposites Ignored

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Bell Hooks

Author, Feminist, Social Activist

“Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.”

Opposites Foundation Abuse

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Benjamin Franklin

Inventor, Statesman, Author

“Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.”

Government Wise Opposites

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David Hume

Philosopher, Historian

“Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.”

Wise Opposites Miracle

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Diana Vreeland

Fashion Editor

“Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held”

People Opposites Lunch

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Cesare Pavese

Poet, Novelist

“We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.”

Art Two Opposites

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Aristotle

Philosopher

“A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions”

Men Happiness Opposites

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Arthur Dean

Artist

“A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.”

Player Giving Up Opposites

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Walter Russell

Artist, Author, Philosopher

“Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.”

Life Opposites Balance

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Walker Percy

Author, Novelist

“They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.”

Thinking Opposites Suicide

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Vincent de Paul

Saint, Priest

“I feel so strongly about the truths Our Lord taught us by word and example that I cannot help but see how everything done according to that teaching always succeeds perfectly well, while things done the opposite way have a quite different result.”

Teaching Faith Opposites

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May Sarton

Poet

“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”

Want Giving Opposites

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