Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny? — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
1st Valentine's Day: 200,000 BC men and women congregate on opposite sides of Pangaea, waiting for someone to make the first move. — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
I'm proud of The Hangover, but to be in movies like this, which are really the only places I can get work,… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
Another thing we wanted to do, a lot of shows or movies that are in the future or the post-apocalyptic are very… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. ... But that's… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it).… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely… — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Same-sex marriage is so ingrained in the culture now that when you're talking about regular, good old-fashioned marriage, you have to say… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about it to me is the mindset. With all these "helpers" running around, they talk about doing deals. We… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“The trappings of success bring the opposite of success in the ways most meaningful to people's lives.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him. — Linda Evans Copy Share Image
For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Opposites attract. If two people just alike get married, one of you is unnecessary. LARRY BURKETT” — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite. — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean? — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Marry the person you're opposite with, that way two people won't make the same mistake. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection. — Livy Copy Share Image
