Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gayle Forman

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

Eckhart Tolle

Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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 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.

Gertrude Stein

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Herbert Bayard Swope

It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.

Flannery O'Connor

[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

Fetty Wap

I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.

Henry Mintzberg

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.

Gottfried Leibniz

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

Harvey Weinstein

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

Jennifer Garner

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.