Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marguerite Duras

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

Jessica Alba

It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.

H. P. Lovecraft

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.

Jean de la Bruyere

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.

Jean Baudrillard

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Jayne Meadows

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

Jay Griffiths

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

Jay Leno

(The Weakest Link) is fascinating program. They ask a bunch of people questions and they keep getting rid of the dumbest person, so just the smartest person is left. It is kind of the opposite way we elect a president.

Jared Leto

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

Janeane Garofalo

I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

John Green

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

R. C. Sproul

The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Nelson Mandela

Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious.

Nelson Eddy

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nhat Hanh

Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"

Noam Chomsky

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

Howard Dean

The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.

Honore de Balzac

Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.

Keren Ann

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

Olivier Martinez

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Oliver Goldsmith

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Jerry Bridges

The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.

Graham Swift

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

Jim Jarmusch

Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.

Jim DeMint

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.

Jeremy Rifkin

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

Frank Herbert

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

Frank Herbert

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

Mae West

We're intellectual opposites. Well, I'm intellectual and you're opposite.