Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Claude Juncker

Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.

Jerry Seinfeld

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

Jim Gaffigan

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.

James Caan

Observe the masses and do the opposite

Jacqueline Novogratz

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Gary Zukav

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.

Freddie Highmore

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.

Christopher Hitchens

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled...

Christopher Eccleston

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

Chris Hadfield

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

Gilbert Arenas

As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.

Fran Lebowitz

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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.

Frank Capra

Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.

Francoise Sagan

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

Christian Smith

The problem is that, regardless of what our theologies tell us about the purpose of the clergy, the actual effect of the clergy profession is to make the body of Christ lame. This happens not because clergy intend it (they usually intend the opposite) but because the objective nature of the profession inevitably turns the laity into passive receivers.

Christian Bale

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

Chris Pine

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

George Soros

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

George Carlin

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

Frederic Raphael

Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

Felicity Kendal

I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.

Ezra Levant

It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.

Francis Collins

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

Hugh Dancy

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

Horace

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

Horace

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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; ...

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.