Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Marx

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

Kal Penn

What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.

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.

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.

Jim Jarmusch

Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.

Jim DeMint

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

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.

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." ()

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.

Italo Calvino

To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished.

Isaac Newton

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

Isaac Newton

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

Charlotte: You exchanged keys, that's big!Carrie: No, that's the opposite of Big.

Guy Kawasaki

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

Glenn Ford

Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.

Jack Canfield

Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.

J. D. Salinger

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.

It's the total opposite side of the coin.

Jonathan Haidt

Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's the opposite. They see business as good, as what generates wealth in society, and they see government as the oppressor, which makes it hard for especially small businesspeople.

Jonathan Franzen

Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.

Paul Mazursky

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.