Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dinah Sheridan

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

Derek Sivers

I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

Derek Sivers

Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

David Whyte

What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside, can seem more like constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others, because they reside in far too private a chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily trouble, but often the opposite. To have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.

David Ogilvy

Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite.

David Mazzucchelli

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

Daisaku Ikeda

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Confucius

Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.

Cindy Sherman

Early in my career, a critic said that I needed to "explain" the irony in my work, suggesting that I needed to add text next to the images to help people understand what I was trying to say. At first I was dismayed that I wasn't making work with a clear enough message. That's when I realized that that was the exact opposite of what I wanted to do - that I wasn't responsible for a misinterpretation of my work, that there should be some ambiguity to it. They either got it, or they didn't.

Cindy Sheehan

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Amy Tan

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

Anthony Burgess

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

Anthony Burgess

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Anthony Bourdain

What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?

Andy Warhol

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Orson Scott Card

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

Ram Dass

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

Stephen Jay Gould

I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Cecelia Ahern

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

Bernard Arnault

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

Bill Griffith

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Carl Jung

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

Carl Jung

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

Carl Jung

Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

Carl Jung

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

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.

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.

John Morrison

It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly.

Joan Robinson

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.