#opposite

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#cold #equally #opposite #said #sneezed

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#case #christianity #conquered #made #nationalism

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. ↗

— Rollo May

#hate #love #opposite

To know one thing, you must know the opposite. ↗

— Henry Moore

#must #one thing #opposite #thing #you

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers. ↗

— Max Muller

#church #cross #even #far #golden

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike. ↗

— Wanda Sykes

#because #being #comedy #harder #i

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#ambiguous #complain #entire #everyone #exactly

The town of L— represented the earth, with its sorrows and its graves left behind, yet not out of sight, nor wholly forgotten. The ocean, in everlasting but gentle agitation, and brooded over by a dove-like calm, might not unfitly typify the mind and the mood which then swayed it. For it seemed to me as if then first I stood at a distance, and aloof from the uproar of life; as if the tumult, the fever, and the strife, were suspended; a respite granted from the secret burthens of the heart; a sabbath of repose; a resting from human labours. Here were the hopes which blossom in the paths of life, reconciled with the peace which is in the grave; motions of the intellect as unwearied as the heavens, yet for all anxieties a halcyon calm: a tranquility that seemed no product of inertia, but as if resulting from mighty and equal antagonisms; infinite activities, infinite repose. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#reconciliation-of-opposites #equality

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#contributes #convulsion #death #good #implication

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#opposites #love