Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Robinson

Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gayle Forman

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

Livy

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

Malcolm Forbes

Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way.

Malcolm Bradbury

To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.

Fred Upton

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

Norman Mailer

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

Os Guinness

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

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.

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!

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.

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?

Tim Gane

What I liked about doing a soundtrack is that it's almost the opposite of any kind of normal recording that a band does, because it's very much a restricted, narrow... And I kind of like that, I find it exciting to work within these things.

Tom Hodgkinson

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.

Tom Hodgkinson

I originally welcomed the mobile phone, as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.

Tom Stoppard

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

Tim LaHaye

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.