William Arthur Ward Quotes

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Every side of a coin has another side.

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

Every day is different, and every wicket is different.

It was a quality of my childhood that everything had these two sides. Even though things could be really beautiful and peaceful one moment, they could also be a bit chaotic or maybe terrifying in another.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.