Opposites Quotes

None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite.

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

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

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

I tell em everybody else is my opposite. I put em on the game give em five percent.

Consuming is the opposite of producing.

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

If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.

I live opposite an amazing wood in London, and you can usually find me sitting there for hours and sketching. Sometimes the icon or symbol leads me to the face, but usually it's the other way around.

For every low there is an equal but opposite high.

Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.

There is no cash in battling evil: just the opposite in my experience

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

Here's what the rest of the world does that we don't do. They take the tax off of their exports and place a tax on their imports. We do the opposite. We tax our exports and don't tax our imports.

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.

Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

claire:Now shane was talking sense?Wow was it opposite day?

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.

And that third dimension brings bliss. Bliss is without any opposite to it. It is serene, tranquil, cool. It is ecstasy without any excitement.

The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.

Faith is not the opposite of reason.

Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society.

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

You feel quite strangely secure [doing any kind of series]. It's the opposite of how you're supposed to feel doing a movie.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

The only way to grab the attention of the audience is originality. We feed ourselves with franchises that's the opposite of what makes our culture multidimensional and interesting.

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

I was reading emails from women who are alternately chuckling or outraged. One of them said, "Do you hate women? Would you just be honest?" No, folks, no! It's quite the opposite.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

For a lot of us, the opposite of auspicious coincidence is obstacles. Life usually is a mixture of both, but as we begin to exhibit exertion, more and more auspiciousness happens.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.