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Opposites are cures for opposites. -- Hippocrates
Opposites attract - and then aggravate. -- Joy Browne
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary. -- Niels Bohr
Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other. -- Kenneth Kaye
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins. -- Ayn Rand
Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character. -- Donald Hall
Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter. -- Peter David
Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites. -- Suze Orman
Opposites generally create intense chemistry. There are more chances of fireworks when different people are together than similar personalities. -- Sonam Kapoor
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you. -- Susan Cain
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. -- Hermann Hesse
Every good girl loved a bad boy. It was a fact of life, a quirk of nature. Opposites attract, and the badder the boy, the more attractive he was to that good girl who couldn't help but be drawn to him. -- Lora Leigh
In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once again, you see the theme of taking away a precious element of the world or making it rare and precarious. -- Vera Nazarian
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel
The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear. -- Gary Zukav
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. -- May Sarton
Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites. -- Jayne Meadows
That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself -- Taryn Manning
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -- Fran Lebowitz
Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction. -- Willem Dafoe
It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. -- Abba Eban
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. -- Roger von Oech
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. -- Coco Chanel
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. -- Jim Hightower
My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four. -- Tracy Austin
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. -- Sholem Asch
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. -- Leo Buscaglia
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one -- Rumi
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. -- Karl Liebknecht
In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. -- Andrew Greeley
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. -- Thomas Mann
It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great -- Trey Parker
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel
My parents are opposites who balance each other out. -- Tamara Ecclestone
Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you. -- Tommy Lee
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol
My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. -- Marc Chagall
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me. -- Gustav Stresemann
Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them. -- June Singer
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another. -- Max Weber
Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground. -- Ezra Koenig
I don't think opposites attract. I think like attracts like. So I don't think that they do attract, opposites. Only when you're talking about magnetic poles. -- Ashton Kutcher
The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity. -- Nicholas Mosley
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do. -- Clara Barton
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not. -- Renzo Piano
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
It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great. -- Trey Parker
Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends. -- Candis Cayne
Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away. -- Peter Thiel
I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships. -- Tracy McMillan
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. -- Louis Aragon
Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well. -- Eric Ries
Tension of opposites. -- Mitch Albom
At first opposites attract. Then opposites attack. -- Rick Warren
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them. -- Assata Shakur
In reality opposites are one; art shows this. -- Eli Siegel
The unifying of opposites is the eternal process. -- Mary Parker Follett
The highest peace is the peace between opposites. -- Leonid Brezhnev
We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite. -- Mae West
All things come into being by conflict of opposites. -- Heraclitus
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. -- John Dewey
Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract. -- Kathy Lette
Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites? -- George Carlin
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. -- Frank Herbert
She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind. -- Richard Ford
In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence. -- George Carlin
The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites. -- Patanjali
Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements -- Pythagoras
Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites -- Anagarika Govinda
Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites? -- Socrates
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference. -- Alexander Sutherland Neill
Love and hate are not opposites; they are siblings birthed by obsession. -- Steve Maraboli
The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites -- Rumi
Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites. -- James P. Carse
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... -- Christopher Hitchens
The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The journey towards oneness emphasizes the opposites and we are caught in their conflict. -- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance. -- Richard Garriott
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. -- Plato
In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next. -- Samuel R. Delany
The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories. -- Simone Weil
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning. -- Herbert Marcuse
When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites. -- Laurence Boldt
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites, -- Eli Siegel
The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art. -- Eli Siegel
[T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites. -- Yann Martel
They say opposites attract, which is possibly why I am very much attracted to Nicholas Parsons. -- Maria McErlane
ABC is owned by Disney, so it's a little more conservative than Adult Swim. Polar opposites. -- Eric Andre
A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites. -- Alan Watts
When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets. -- Talib Kweli
Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever. -- Alan Watts
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility. -- Nancy Price
True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down. -- Jay Crownover
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. -- Tacitus
Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE -- Tristan Tzara
Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed -- E. F. Schumacher
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. -- Ayn Rand
There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre. -- Heraclitus
Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again. -- Rumi
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything. -- Brian Tracy
It's usually our opposites who complement us best, because they're the only ones who can balance us out. -- Rachel Hollis
I believe in a world of opposites and that's why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. -- Meryl Streep
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands. -- Judith Jamison
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. -- Carl Jung
The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites. -- Walter Russell
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. -- Aristotle
The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites. -- Diana Lanham
how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? -- Amy Tan

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