Opposites Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion.

There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.

Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.

Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.

In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true - demand for our services increases in hard times.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

The opposite of war isn't peace... It's creation!

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.

I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

In horror movies today its lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.