“What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our counterpart; quite the contrary; within healthy limits, our unlike and our opposite.” LoveBelieveFallI BelieveMoralHealthyLimitsOppositesFalling In LoveContraryComplementCounterparts Book:Falling in Love Source: Falling in Love
“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.” KnowsBelieveBookUsedI BelieveSeaRiversOppositesSeriesLibraryFishesUsed To BeBoatLakesFishingShelves Author:Jasper Fforde
“I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.” PeopleWorldWantBelieveDonePastHateI BelievePerfectViolenceFairsOppositesI HateMadnessCrueltyScareScreamConfrontationAmiableA Perfect WorldUnkindnessAffableMoodiness Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.” ThinkingWorldBelieveI BelieveCan DoDesignTasteOppositesSavedVulgarGood TasteCursingBad TasteDistasteful Author:Kanye West
“When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided between the two opposite Opinions; or rather I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.” WorldGivingMindBelievePersonsHas BeensTwoI BelieveOpinionParticularOppositesI Believe InCreditInstanceDividedWitchWitchcraftPaganismTwo OppositesWiccan Book:The de Coverley papers Source: The de Coverley papers
“I believe a lot of people that are gay, had even had problems like I had in the past. I think they've been hurt by somebody from the opposite sex, and they don't know how to function right in those relationships.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveProblemPastI BelieveSexHurtKnow HowGayOppositesFunctionBeen Hurt Author:Joyce Meyer
“The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose which is to remove them from the emotional space and allow them to enter a space of thinking, because I believe that when the audience is watching the film they're watching it with their feelings.” ThinkingBelieveEndsFactsFeelingsFilmPurposeI BelieveSpaceEmotionAudienceEmotionalOppositesRemoveAccentuate Author:Asghar Farhadi
“People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the positive and negative volts on a battery, you need both for power.” PeopleIfsNeedsBelieveAsksI BelieveNegativeOppositesI Believe InAsk MeAstrologyBatteriesVolt Author:John Patrick Shanley
“I believe most people are born with the potential to have same-sex and opposite-sex attractions. However, homophobia creates an internal split, locking up a natural part of a person's psyche, sometimes to the point where the person is unaware that part exists.” PeopleBelievePersonsSometimesI BelieveSexBornNaturalOppositesAttractionInternalsSplitsHomophobia Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl
“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.” BelieveI BelieveGoalPerfectImagineFailingObjectsWasteOppositesBiggerReproachBirthright Author:Seth Godin
“Be careful what you wish for, I guess. I believe - this will sound bloated, but I believe it - that true art, the potent stuff, can take the world down with it, just like religion can. And the opposite of course.” WorldBelieveArtCoursesI BelieveWishStuffSoundOppositesCarefulBe CarefulCareful What You Wish For Author:Porochista Khakpour
“Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.” FeelsBelieveChildrenI BelieveOppositesI Believe InBirthdayMurderer Author:Mindy Kaling
“I believe the more difficult a child is, the more I want that child. But I won't take a child until the parent brings him to us. So it is just the opposite - we get the ones that no one else will take. We get sawdust, and we have to make boards out of it.” WantBelieveChildrenI BelieveParentDifficultOppositesBoardsSawdust Author:Marva Collins
“Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.” BelieveHappensI BelieveCasesSubjectsOppositesThis I Believe Author:Umberto Eco
“For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.” WorldBelieveHumansKindHas BeensSoulBodyMightEarthOrderI BelieveHeavenDutyTasksOppositesEternityCastsHeavyImmortalContemplatingModerationHuman BodyDwellingConfinementGodlikeSteadfastness Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him. [p.250]” IfsBelieveStatesBeliefI BelievePossibilityOppositesI Believe InArguingBelieve In GodNot InterestedThesisI Believe In God Author:Northrop Frye
“And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.” ShouldBelieveLongI BelieveSadnessHatredOppositesBitterness Book:The Tommyknockers Source: The Tommyknockers
“I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment that he died, so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky. I don’t know if that’s possible, but that’s what I believe.” IfsThinkingKnowsBelieveMomentsReadingI BelieveSkyNegativeOppositesDiedCloudsLightningBoltsFrictionOpposites Attract Author:Chris Colfer
“I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.” PeopleWorldBelieveI BelievePersonalityOppositesI Believe InHaving PatienceNo PatienceLife PatienceI Have No PatiencePatience And Tolerance Author:Meryl Streep
“The script will point you in certain directions and I go the opposite if I can. I try do do one thing and tell a different story with my eyes. I believe what's more interesting is always what's not being said.” IfsTryingBelieveSaidI CanDifferentStoriesEyeCertainI BelieveInterestingOne ThingOppositesScripts Author:Robert Carlyle
“Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.” WorldBelieveWarI BelieveCausesGreaterTroubleArgumentOppositesTerrorInterfereSaddamHusseinOpposing Author:Dick Cheney