Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialist overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalist...
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.
the only thing men are fast at is sex.
My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.
Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?
There's more to sex, the really good kind, than orgasms.
If sex is a journey, orgasm is the both the purpose and journey's end.
He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.
You taste like sex, Magdalena. And I’m a starved man.
In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.
When it comes to sex, no pairing is beyond belief.
