Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Kofi Annan

Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or even undermine economic growth. In fact, the opposite is true: unless we protect resources and the earth's natural capital, we shall not be able to sustain economic growth.

Kim Ki-duk

I try not to interpret things of the world into a single meaning. Rather, I try the opposite.

Kelly Lynch

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

Keith Haring

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

Terence McKenna

And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

Terence McKenna

Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

Scott McClellan

Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.

Seth

Try is the opposite of hiding.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Lawrence Durrell

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Marc Jacobs

Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.'

Sam Walton

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

Robert M. Pirsig

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Robert M. Pirsig

The purpose of scientific method is to select a single truth from among many hypothetical truths. That, more than anything else, is what science is all about. But historically science has done exactly the opposite. Through multiplication upon multiplication of facts, information, theories and hypotheses, it is science itself that is leading mankind from single absolute truths to multiple indeterminate, relative ones.

Tim LaHaye

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

Tim Ferriss

If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

Tim Ferriss

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

S. J. Perelman

Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.

Ronald Reagan

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Roman Coppola

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

Ron Perlman

The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.

Susan Orlean

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

Susan Cain

All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we've seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

Sharon Salzberg

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

Simone Weil

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Simone Weil

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.

Simon Sinek

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.

Thomas Malthus

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

Tony Judt

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

Shirley Eaton

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.