Opposites Quotes

The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

I don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me.

For strangers, what I get a lot is people calling me the opposite of what I am.

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

Simply because everything is perfect does not imply there is nothing to be done. Actually, it is pretty much the opposite. There is everything to be done.

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

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

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.

You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.

I was looking for the opposite, really -something that might put an end to being in love

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

Juliana's a year older than me, but she sometimes seems younger - mostly because she's the opposite of cynical and I'm the opposite of the opposite of cynical.

When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It's been the exact opposite.

Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.

humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.

It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.

Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

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

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

Katherine Heigl, she was exactly the opposite of what I thought she'd be like. She smokes cigarettes, or she did then, and she's got a truck-driver's mouth, and she's really funny.

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite affect on me. It kept me from having a really bad Southern accent.

Number one, [Hillary Clinton] is weak. Number two, she has a hair trigger and it's just the opposite with me.

One thing I had hoped Barack Obama would be is a good cheerleader for the country. He's really brought the opposite in spirit to the country.

I will be in Melbourne, Florida, and I just heard the crowds are massive that want to be there. I turn on the TV, open the newspapers, and I see stories of chaos, chaos, yet it is the exact opposite.

The whole creative process...is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

But what about the End of the Universe? We'll miss the big moment." I've seen it. It's rubbish," said Zaphod,"nothing but a gnab gib." A what?" Opposite of a big bang. Come on, let's get zappy.

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.