“When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.” IfsKnowsWorldLittlesPersonsEndsSchoolGirlPartyHigh SchoolOppositesAdolescence Author:Jerry O'Connell
“Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.” TwoEndsUniverseEffectsProduceOppositesAffectedParticles Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.” KindEndsSeemsTogetherSocietyOppositesAll KindsModeratesCrowdedFanatics Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.” EndsMoralBreakIssuesGroupsPossibilityPositionSolutionsOppositesComplexesExtremesTendenciesOpponentsVulgarSubtletyAmusedContinuumDichotomyAcknowledgment Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
“When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?” EndsSidesOppositesVersus Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.” MindEndsForceMoralityMouthsGunOppositesConvinced Book:Atlas Shrugged Source: Atlas Shrugged