#opposite

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#always #anyone #between #cannot #comes

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#anyone #between #cannot #comes #directions

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#however #lie #may #opposite #truth

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'? ↗

— Paul Harvey

#con #opposite #pro #progress

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#better #energy #fear #gives #i

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

— Rollo May

#hate #love #opposite

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

I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin. ↗

— Betsy Lerner

#trust #age

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ↗

— Marc Chagall

#friends #lovers #neighbors #opposites #their

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each? ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#cause-and-effect #chain-of-events #chance #change #choice