Quotes by Opposites A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to read. It's robust and direct-the opposite of gaudy, pretentious language. You achieve plain English when you use the simplest, most straightforward way of expressing an idea. You can still choose interesting words. But you'll avoid fancy ones that have everyday replacements meaning precisely the same thing. Bryan A. Garner opposites ideas interesting Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason. Bryan Callen disrespectful reason opposites I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are. Bryan Cranston opposites television thinking Simply because everything is perfect does not imply there is nothing to be done. Actually, it is pretty much the opposite. There is everything to be done. Bryan Kest perfect opposites doe The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice. Bryan Stevenson poverty opposites justice My experience is the opposite. Byron Katie opposites peace Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you. C. S. Lewis upset errors opposites Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do. C. S. Lewis opposites may men When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good. C. S. Lewis ignored prayer opposites But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul. Caitlin Thomas soul opposites advice Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission Calvin Miller thrill dying opposites To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that. Cam Gigandet growing-up opposites people I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time. Cameron Diaz opposites play thinking My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill. Cara Delevingne able opposites needs The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites. Carl Jung innovation energy opposites If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new. Carl Jung unions dark opposites The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine Carl Jung psychology self opposites It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections. Carl Jung responsibility evil opposites Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites! Carl Jung energy self opposites Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao. Carl Jung chinese names opposites «89101112131415161718»