{"quotes":[{"text":"God created… light anddark, heaven and hell—science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite.“Including matter itself, antimatter.","author":"Dan Brown","tags":["antimatter","big-bang","claims","dark","everything","heaven","hell","light","matter","opposite","opposites","religion","science","the-big-bang","theories","theory","theory-of-everything"],"id":423,"author_id":"Dan+Brown"},{"text":"When Sally stopped crying, she found herself alone, the cold draft of the window at her neck, and on both sides, the rows of doors went on and on, diminishing to nothing, the end. 'What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight, oh.' What glories.Mathilde came. And though she appeared to be the... Same sweet girl Sally had been afraid of, she was not. Sally saw the flint in her. Mathilde can save Lotto from his own laziness, Sally thought. But here they were, a year later, and he was still ordinary. The chorus caught in her throat. A stranger hurrying as fast as he could over the icy sidewalks looked in. He saw a circle of singing people bathed in the clean, white light from a tree, and his heart did a soumersault. And the image stayed with him, it merged with him even as he came home to his own children, who were already asleep in their beds, to his wife crossly putting together the tricycle without the screwdriver he'd run out to borrow. It remained long after his children ripped open their gifts and abandoned their toys and puddles of paper and grew too old for them and left their house and parents and childhoods, so that he and his wife gaped at each other in bewilderment as to how it had happened so terribly swiftly. All those years, the singers in the soft light in the basement apartment crystalized in his mind, became the very idea of what happiness should look like.","author":"Lauren Groff","tags":["christmas","joy","moments","opposites","perception"],"id":32790,"author_id":"Lauren+Groff"},{"text":"She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["actress","aspects","astrological","astrological-omens","astrology","astrology","behavior","blond-beast","blonde","celebrities","celebrity","cinema","conflict","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-thriller","culture","discussion","dispute","double","double-agent","double-personality","dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde","duality","entertainment-industry","fame","famous","film","gemini","good-and-evil","gossip","heart","hollywood","hollywood-culture","intellect","intellectual","intelligence","literature","marilyn","marilyn-monroe","misery","misticism","model","move","movies","murder","murder-mystery","murderers","murmur","mute","mystery","opposites","psychological","psychological-thriller","psychology","split","split-personality","spy","spy-thriller","spying","twin","twin-towers","twins"],"id":53593,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Without opposition, there could be no creation. All life would cease without resistance. Emotions also have their polar opposites: attraction – repulsion, love – hate, aggression – meekness, and mercy – callousness.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["aggression","conflict","creation","creativity","emotions","hate","love","meekness","mercy","opposites","opposition","opposition-in-life","opposition","resistance"],"id":69493,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"On Virtue – When people want to describe the hideousness of a person or object, they may use the phrase ‘ugly as sin’. But the phrase should be ‘ugly as virtue’. Sin isn’t ugly. It’s highly attractive! That’s why so many people flock to it.","author":"Marsha Hinds","tags":["attractive","humor","opposites","sin","ugly","virtue"],"id":71060,"author_id":"Marsha+Hinds"},{"text":"It's usually our opposites who complement us best, because they're the only ones who can balance us out.","author":"Rachel Hollis","tags":["balance","complement","opposites"],"id":82838,"author_id":"Rachel+Hollis"},{"text":"[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a sense in which that sublime despair is the only alternative to that divine audacity. It is even true that the truly spiritual and intellectual man sees it as sort of dilemma; a very hard and terrible choice. There is little else on earth that can compare with these for completeness. And he who does not climb the mountain of Christ does indeed fall into the abyss of Buddha.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["audacity","belief","beliefs","compare","comparison","contrast","darkness","death","life","opposites","philosophy","religion","worldview"],"id":88849,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["delight","development","faith","fear","free","freedom","god","gods-will","greater","obedience","opposites","peace","remission","removal","responsibility","responsible","salvation","spiritual","spiritual-development"],"id":94909,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each other out if they come in contact.Keeping antimatter isolated from matter is a challenge, of course, because everything on earth is made of matter. The samples have to be stored without ever touching anything at all—even air.","author":"Dan Brown","tags":["air","antimatter","atmosphere","cancel-each-other-out","cancel-out","challenge","challenges","contact","energy","image","instant","instantly","isolated","isolation","matter","mirror-image","opposite","opposites","samples","science","theories","theory","touch","touching"],"id":97904,"author_id":"Dan+Brown"},{"text":"Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["faith","opposites","trust","worry"],"id":99601,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}