Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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; ...

Everything that he's done is just the opposite of what he has said.

Joe Girardi

The Yankees, usually they have one of the 25-man roster they're not sure who they're taking. We have like two that we know we're taking. It's about as opposite as it can be.

In many ways, CRM is the opposite of peer-to-peer computing, ... CRM is a disaster.

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.

Jane Pauley

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

Ernestine Rose

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death.

Jeremy Rifkin

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

Frank Herbert

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

Frank Herbert

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

Jessica Alba

It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.

H. P. Lovecraft

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.

Jean de la Bruyere

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Jean Baudrillard

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Jayne Meadows

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

Jay Griffiths

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

Jay Leno

(The Weakest Link) is fascinating program. They ask a bunch of people questions and they keep getting rid of the dumbest person, so just the smartest person is left. It is kind of the opposite way we elect a president.