Vice Versa Quotes

• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Depression, Death, Pain

  "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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• Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Discipline, Vices

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• Thank you for your cooperation and vice versa.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Vices, Orchestra

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• Our beliefs create the kind of world we believe in. We project our feelings, thoughts and attitudes onto the world. I can create a different world by changing my belief about the world. Our inner state creates the outer and not vice versa.

  John Bradshaw

  Attitude, Believe, Feelings

  John Bradshaw (1996). “Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem”, p.246, Health Communications, Inc.

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• There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Real, Jewels, Vices

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.8937, Delphi Classics

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• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

  Honore de Balzac

  Law, Vices, Literature

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.56, The Floating Press

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• Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

  Andres Serrano

  Hate, Vices, Love Hate

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• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  William Blake

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

  Samuel Butler

  Vices, Virtue, Midst

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Princess, Reality, Vices

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• . . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

  Gertrude Stein

  Animal, Equality, Men

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.46, Vintage

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• It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

  Warren Christopher

  Moving, June, Russia

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• It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

  Dirk Benedict

  Stars, Real, Marketing

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  Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Baseball, Vices

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, The Official Explanations (1980)

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• A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Meaningful, Important, Vices

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• To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Mother, Country

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• Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Individuality, Liberty, Vices

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1953). “The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism”, Free Pr

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• I've always told Will, you can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be OK.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mirrors, Long, Looks

  "Jada Pinkett On Will Smith Open Relationship Rumor: ‘Will Is His Own Man’". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2013.

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• Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, New York, Congratulations

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• Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.

  Bill Murray

  Party, Fall, Fighting

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• The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Vices, Credibility

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.231, Penguin

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• We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

  Iron & Wine

  Song, Play, Vices

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• A characteristic of the flesh is its fickleness: it alternates between Yes and No and vice versa. But the will of God is: "Walk not according to the flesh (not even for a moment) but according to the Spirit."

  Watchman Nee

  Vices, Yes And No, Flesh

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.45, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.

  Barbara Brennan

  Past, Discovery, Experience

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• Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.

  Yogi Berra

  Vices, Pitching, Beats

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