Opposites Quotes

Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine

For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).

Peace means far more than the opposite of war.

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud.

Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600 years. Today is almost as extreme in the opposite way.

Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of these two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both.

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Psychologically, when you've been overweight you want to achieve the polar opposite.

Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad.

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

I will say that Bernie Sanders are the opposite end of the spectrum from Donald Trump. We see him leading right now in the Republican Party in an intractable way.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible.