Opposites Quotes

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and wisdom. It's just the opposite.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

The opposite of nature is impossible.

Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

Observe the masses and do the opposite

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it's the opposite of a true grass roots movement.

Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.

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

Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

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

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies.

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

My experience is the opposite.

I don't like the fact that people are supposed to think horror movies have a way things should go. I always try to do the exact opposite of what people expect and want.

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.

When I met you it was magic... We polar opposites, but attracted like we was magnets.