Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Bergamin

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

Kelley Armstrong

Derek looked around, like he was searching for something to use. Then he stripped off his shirt. I tried not to look away. Not that he looked bad without his shirt. The opposite, actually, which is why...Let's just say friends are really better when they're fully clothed.

Jo Nesbo

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

James Macdonald

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

James Madison

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

Norman Vincent Peale

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite…

Hermann Hesse

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Hermann Hesse

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Henri Nouwen

Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is the opposite of distraction … how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.

Heraclitus

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Heraclitus

The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.

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 Ward Beecher

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

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.

Jonathan Sacks

The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

Napoleon Hill

Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit.

Norman Mailer

What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?

Os Guinness

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

Martin Starr

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

Michel Foucault

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

Ted Cruz

I had a back-and-forth where I asked Donald Trump, is it true or false that he said the government should pay for everyone's health care? He said it's false. Listen, within minutes, we put out a video just contrasting what he said there with video of him just a few months earlier saying exactly the opposite.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.

James Madison

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

Shane Koyczan

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

Shane Filan

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

Serena Williams

Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.

Siegfried Sassoon

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

John Wilbanks

The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.

John Wesley

The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.

John Waters

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.