Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heraclitus

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

Henry Cloud

The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love

Henry Fielding

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty.

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.

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.

Gertrude Stein

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Herbert Bayard Swope

It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.

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.

Gottfried Leibniz

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

Harvey Weinstein

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

Jennifer Garner

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

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.

Jerry Seinfeld

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

Jim Gaffigan

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.

James Caan

Observe the masses and do the opposite

Jacqueline Novogratz

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Gary Zukav

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Freddie Highmore

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

Christopher Hitchens

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled...

Christopher Eccleston

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

Chris Hadfield

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

Gilbert Arenas

As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.

Fran Lebowitz

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

George Orwell

Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

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.