Perfect Opposites Quotes

#1. If it were me, I'd be flying off the handle and freaking out. But he's not. He's as calm as can be. We're like yin and yang. Perfect opposites.

Courtney Cole

#2. I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

J. Tillman

#3. Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Jean Toomer

#4. Death is like a fisherman who has caught a fish in his net and leaves it for a time in the water: the fish still swims about, but the net surrounds it, and the fisherman will take it when he wishes.

Ivan Turgenev

#5. Some call me a gangster of love

Steve Miller

#6. Claritypoint: Choose to trust these two critical truths that are the opposites of the two core fears: 1) Your value is infinite and absolute because life is a classroom. 2) Every experience is your perfect classroom journey.

Kimberly Giles

#7. I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to ... my own life.

Newt Gingrich

#8. You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#9. I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.

Joe Strummer

#10. Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

Gregg Easterbrook

#11. When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

Bill Parcells

#12. That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.

Eugene Ormandy

#13. The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.

Stefan Zweig

#14. You think I'm perfect, but I feel like a songbird trapped in a cage.

Christina L. Barr

#15. Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work.

Molly Sims

#16. 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

#17. The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

Seth Godin

#18. I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.

Jim Ratcliffe

#19. I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.

Amanda Lindhout

#20. If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.

Frederick Lenz

#21. Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Edmund Burke

#22. Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

Rosanne Cash