Opposites Quotes

I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.

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.

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.

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

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?

Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

I moved to Hollywood when I was 18. I never saw it as a disadvantage in any way. Quite the opposite.

True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.

Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.

Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction." I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me" was Bones' mocking reply.

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

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

Creativity is the opposite of TV

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.

Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.

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

Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, "Take that, Lipitor."

I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan.

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

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about that.

Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.