Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Now, playing a love interest can be really thrilling, if you're working opposite thrilling people.

Murray Rothbard

We must therefore turn to history for enlightenment; here we find that none of the proclaimed anarchist groups correspond to the libertarian position, that even the best of them have unrealistic and socialistic elements in their doctrines. Furthermore, we find that all of the current anarchists are irrational collectivists, and therefore at opposite poles from our position. We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical.

Milton Friedman

The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.

Natalia Kills

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

Ken Wilber

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

Kelly Wearstler

Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.

Keira Knightley

A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

Kari Matchett

I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great.

Julian Barnes

He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.

Keren Ann

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

Gloria Steinem

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

Immanuel Kant

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

J. K. Rowling

A Horcrux is the complete opposite of a human being.

Grace Kelly

I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.

Grace Jones

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Jerry Bridges

The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.

Graham Swift

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

If he's our second-best safety opposite Tony, then he'll be playing and we'll reduce his special teams role." ()

Howard Dean

The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.

Honore de Balzac

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.