Opposites Quotes

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.

The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.

As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

I'm keeping myself to myself. And I like it that way. I'm not hunting. I'm the opposite of a - what would a male cougar be? Is there such a thing? Whatever it is, I'm not that.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Do exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the Shepherd.

We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.

Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.

Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.

Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that.

I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious. Funny is the opposite of not funny and nothing else.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.

I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

For every scientific (or engineering) action, there is an equal and opposite social reaction.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.