#opposite

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#america #country #dictator #down #during

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#absolutely #appears #course #disappearance #ends

When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions. ↗

— Jon Brion

#becoming #colder #exact #exact opposite #find

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#aspect #create #creatively #desire #destroy

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does. ↗

— Maurice Barres

#does #his #keeps #opposite #politician

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#best #brought #diligence #fortune #goal

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#culture #dominant #everything #opposite #stood

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times. ↗

— Anselm Feuerbach

#gives #good #good advice #nine #opposite

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. ↗

— Joan Chen

#bring #extra #feel #god #help

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#bit #bounce #go #i #me