Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Michael Arrington

The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

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.

Seth Godin

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

Seth Godin

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

Slash

There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.

Slavoj Zizek

This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success.

Sister Souljah

Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.

Socrates

Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?

Michael Scott

Guess what? I have flaws. What are they? Oh I donno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me-- no, don't sue me. That is opposite the point I'm trying to make.

Mitch Albom

Tension of opposites.

John Wilbanks

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

John Waters

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

John Waters

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

Niels Bohr

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

Niels Bohr

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.

Niels Bohr

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Niels Bohr

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

Nicolaus Copernicus

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as inconceivable and even ridiculous to hold the opposite opinion. However, if we consider it more closely the question will be seen to be still unsettled, and so decidedly not to be despised. For every apparent change in respect of position is due to motion of the object observed, or of the observer, or indeed to an unequal change of both.

Nas

Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.