Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Paul Sartre

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.

Jasper Fforde

What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?

Jason Mraz

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

Hippocrates

Opposites are cures for opposites.

Herbert Marcuse

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

Hugh Dancy

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

Horace

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

Horace

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Gottfried Leibniz

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

Frank Capra

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

Francoise Sagan

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

Christian Smith

The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.

Christian Bale

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

Chris Pine

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

George Soros

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

George Carlin

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

Frederic Raphael

Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

Felicity Kendal

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

Ezra Levant

It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.

Francis Collins

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Flannery O'Connor

[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

Fetty Wap

I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.

Henry Mintzberg

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

SAP really does the opposite of what we do.

They played better. It was the same teams in the same ballpark, but the opposite result. They just played better.

This is really the opposite of what we saw with Nokia.

Jenny Lewis

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

Jared Leto

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

Janeane Garofalo

I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.