Quotes about opposites
opposites people abuse
People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite. Michael Jackson
opposites happened knows
What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais? Jasper Fforde
opposites criticism action
For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism. Jason Mraz
opposites cures
Opposites are cures for opposites. Hippocrates
opposites entertainment may
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning. Herbert Marcuse
opposites ideas originality
The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. F. Scott Fitzgerald
opposites two perfect
[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. Flannery O'Connor
opposites people want
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. Fetty Wap
opposites planning strategy
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. Henry Mintzberg
opposites style mind
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
opposites situation turns
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite. Frank Capra
opposites impossible illness
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible. Francoise Sagan
opposites reason revelations
Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation. Francis Collins
opposites romance want
When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours. Fran Lebowitz
opposites devotion conservatism
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. George Orwell
opposites able
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time. Fyodor Dostoevsky
opposites knowing leaving
It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres. Friedrich Nietzsche
opposites action equal
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction Isaac Newton
opposites two body
To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.
opposites transformation nonsense
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; ...
opposites enchantment entitlement
Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment. Guy Kawasaki
opposites trying lines
Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14. Glenn Ford
opposites two ends
Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear. Jack Canfield
opposites scare not-afraid
I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me. J. D. Salinger
opposites space duration
To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place for a duration that is itself a kind of void in time; then you reappear, in a place and in a moment with no relation to the where and when in which you vanished. Italo Calvino
opposites looks way
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. Jennifer Garner
opposites ideas want
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite. Jean-Paul Sartre
opposites want stories
Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day. Jean-Claude Juncker
opposites instinct ifs
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. Jerry Seinfeld
opposites broken
The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken. John Wilbanks
opposites sick naked
The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison. John Wesley
opposites date-movie hard
I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie. John Waters
opposites role-models roles
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?