“It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.” MenLittlesPersonsEnoughSexOppositesCalmMoodOddEntrancesDisturbanceCalm DownAssemblage Book:Wifes And Daughters Source: Wifes And Daughters
“For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.” WellsLooksMayArtMomentsShowsSpiritInterestingHonestMovementOppositesInternationalExtremesContemporaryCuriousOddManifestationOfficialsRepresentationMost InterestingArt HistoryFlamboyant Author:Patrick Swift
“When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.” YearsPersonsPhilosophyGodAbleOrderFatherSonDevilOppositesOddTwelveContemplatingTrinityInference Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” LifeFeelsMadeHappinessNatureVirtuePossibilityGratitudeDiscoveryOppositesConvincedOddCheerGardenerSavants Author:Bertrand Russell
“The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.” ThinkingWorldKindCertainStuffFictionGreatnessOppositesCriticsBritishContemporaryOddNovelistsSymbiosis Author:Will Self
“Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.” TermPrinciplesPromiseOppositesRelationResistanceOddLatterBetrayedLure Book:The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
“So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing?” GirlInterestingBehindsOppositesSurpriseOddPleasantCharmMaskHidingTraitsAcquaintanceFacadeThis GirlConcealingPhysical Beauty Author:Tessa Dare
“There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.” GivingLooksDoeReasonFactsEvilTrustTasteBirdArgumentOppositesBe GoodOddNo ReasonPreyLambsBirds Of Prey Author:Friedrich Nietzsche