Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patton Oswalt

With a comedian, it's the opposite. You put that album out, and they've heard it. If they're coming out to see you, you'd better be doing new stuff. There's always a tiny part of the audience that want to hear certain bits of yours, or they've brought friends to see you, and they've told them about some of your bits. Then maybe you should do them.

Mel Brooks

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

Pope Benedict XVI

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right -- it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society.

Rachel Caine

claire:Now shane was talking sense?Wow was it opposite day?

Pico Iyer

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

Philip Yancey

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

Nathaniel Branden

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

Elliott Erwitt

After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Ellen Hopkins

Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.

Linda Hunt

What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

Lewis H. Lapham

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

Lewis Carroll

As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.

Peace Pilgrim

When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!

Peter Kreeft

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

Peter Kreeft

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Peter Kreeft

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Penelope Cruz

I won't go to places where you're going to find more attention. I go to the opposite.

Pema Chodron

In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.

Pete Postlethwaite

There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way …like Holocaust deniers.

Pythagoras

Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements

Madame de Stael

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

John Mahoney

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

Jimmy Carr

But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked.

Joseph de Maistre

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

Joseph Fiennes

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

Paul Tillich

[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.

Paul Krugman

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

John Sayles

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

John Piper

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

Mark Teixeira

The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite.