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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories
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Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
When the loyal opposition dies,
I think the soul of America dies with it.
- Edward R. Murrow
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Every man casts a shadow;
not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit.
This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,
it falls opposite to the sun;
short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
- Henry David Thoreau
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin
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
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance
when in reality it is the opposite.
When we can recognize all our good qualities
as well as or faults with neutrality,
we can start to appreciate ourselves
as we would a dear friend
and experience the comfortable inner glow of respect.
To embrace the journey towards our full potential
we need to become our own loving teacher and coach.
Spurring ourselves on to become better human beings,
we develop true regard for ourselves,
and our life will become sacred.
- Osho
Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience
it is necessary for us to do the opposite,
that is to commence with experience
and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
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