Opposites Quotes

Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?

Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.

I owe a great deal of thanks to this man who will be gracious enough to say I've helped him with his career and comeback, but it's every bit the opposite.

Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.

When you feel destructive, negative emotions like hate and anger arise within you towards the person opposing you; cultivate the opposite state of mind.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.

If you'd rather learn how to ride a horse or something, I would say do that. That'll keep you out of trouble. You would think a band would get you in trouble, but I think it's the opposite.

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".

The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.

As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.

My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.

Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.

We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.

Once you play something, then you get 20 more of those. So I've tried to avoid getting stuck. I try to take roles that are the opposite of the last thing I did as much as I can.

Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

I'm kind of concerned the combined effect, not only Google, all these companies is kind of to make us more boring and that seems the opposite of what the Internet was supposed to be.

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.

I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

The reason as to why we are attracted to our opposites is because they are our salvation from the burden of being ourselves.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.

...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.

If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

For grey matter, there is no black and white. If you think in black and white, then you do not use enough brain functions.

Worry is the opposite of power.

As he stood in the darkness, his eyes glistened and that’s when I knew my light found its traction.