Contrasting Ideas Quotes

There are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

When we're good, we're very, very good, and when we're bad, we're horrid. This is not news, because we're so much more inventive and we have two hands, the left and the right. That is how we think. It's all over our literature, and it's all over the way we arrange archetypes, the good version, the bad version, the god, the devil, the Abel, the Cain, you name it. We arrange things in pairs like that because we know about ourselves.

Defenders see things way different than blockers.

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

Three Spaniards, four opinions.

Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.

No two people see things the same way.

Ideas never quite exist for him until they have been pitted against something else.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

This wine should be eaten, it is too good to be drunk.

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No person - no two people - read the same book.

People will always make comparisons.

We passed a sign for Boring, Oregon. We never went there, but I was positively enchanted with the idea that there was a town called Boring. 'Gravity Falls' is partially from what I imagine Boring might be like. Or maybe the opposite of Boring, Oregon, would be 'Gravity Falls.'

At least on this side.

I love to have contrast.

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.

Conflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

People like to shy away from comparisons. Personally, I think that's a mistake. Comparisons can be good. People like to compartmentalize things within their own heads, and helping them do that can actually be a positive thing for the brand you're trying to build.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

We're cognizant, curious beings, capable of philosophical thought, nuclear physics, repeating Nerf weapons, global consciousness, Glade air fresheners, and sentient automobiles. But we're assholes first.