Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McCall Smith

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite of what you really felt.

Debbie Ford

There is no quality that we respond to in another that we lack. It might be hidden behind some bad behavior or an old, outdated shadow belief that says we are the exact opposite of what we are seeing in the other person. But I promise you that if you are attracted to a quality in someone else, no matter how great, it also exists inside of you.

Douglas Coupland

Chronotropic Drugs:Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.

Dorothy L. Sayers

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

Dinah Sheridan

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

Derek Sivers

I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

Derek Sivers

Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

David Whyte

What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside, can seem more like constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others, because they reside in far too private a chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily trouble, but often the opposite. To have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.

David Ogilvy

Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite.

David Mazzucchelli

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

Daisaku Ikeda

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Confucius

Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.

Cindy Sherman

Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn't making work with a clear enough message. That's when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do - that I wasn't responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn't.

Cindy Sheehan

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Amy Tan

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Anthony Burgess

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Anthony Burgess

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Anthony Bourdain

What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?

Andy Warhol

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Shari Arison

People see things in the opposite way that I do. There are places that spirit, soul and emotion reach.

Emma Thompson

Having reached 40 this year, if they were going to find someone to play opposite me they'd have to exhume him.

We talked about when we had the wind at our right back, we wanted to use it to play it up and over into the opposite wing.

Jerry Seinfeld

I have this old '57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I'll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, 'cluh-CLICK-click.' That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that's what I'm into.

Two out of three times, the opposite was true.

Orson Scott Card

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

Ram Dass

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

You can just wait long enough and someone else will have an opposite opinion.

Stephen Jay Gould

I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.

Jonathan Larson

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

David Ogden Stiers

We're not puppets on a string, but the shows are, and they get dangled and placed opposite one another. It's a business. There you are.

Kurt Vonnegut

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Cecelia Ahern

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.