Sister Opposites Quotes & Sayings

What I want now is what I've always wanted. — Garth Stein

We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we want it to be. — Alexandra Stoddard

The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual. — Mark Helprin

There would be too much everything and not enough anything, and then where would that leave us? — Therese Anne Fowler

A city obsessed by its ghosts seems to be weighted down by a conflicted view of the past. Something close to melancholy: a weight it can't quite let go of, a lingering sadness. And though we don't often think of the United States in these terms, this melancholy is as much a part of our history as our triumphs. — Colin Dickey

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one. — Will.i.am

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four. — Tracy Austin

The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament. — Bernard Bailyn

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common. — Hunter S. Thompson

The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China. — Jiang Zemin

They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peacefullest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. — Charles Dickens

She's like a sister. People say we're such opposites, but that's what makes us such good friends. She's incredibly blunt. I love that about her. If some guy has said or done something to me she doesn't like, she'll grab my cell phone and say, 'I'm deleting his number. — Taylor Swift

I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it. — Neil Gaiman

I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession. — Kevin Kwan

Teddy thought of his wife and his sister as two sides of the same shining coin. Nancy was an idealist, Ursula a realist; Nancy an optimist with a lively heart, while Ursula's spirit was freighted with the grief of history. Ursula was forever cast out of Eden and making the best of it while Nancy, cheerful and undaunted, was sure her search for the gate back into the garden would be successful. — Kate Atkinson

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell
the hell of your own meanness. — Charlotte Bronte

We wish; we hope. Nothing hardly changes. We take action and more action. Wow! What we envision begins to occur. — D. Allen Miller

Why would I want to go and get all normal when being abnormal is so much more interesting? — Nicole Williams