Opposites Quotes · Page 27

For a long time, TV was just the land of handsome, beautiful people, and now it's the opposite.

— Judd Apatow

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often,…

— David Sedaris

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite…

— Carl Jung

The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.

— Milton Friedman

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a…

— Clara Barton

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite

— Brent Spiner

Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as…

— Ann Coulter

My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don't remember how…

— John Green

Honestly, it's the luck of the draw. If you are comfortable with the actor that you're opposite of - it just breaks…

— James Wolk

The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates. As soon…

— Anagarika Govinda

People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar…

— Delphine de Vigan

It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation…

— Elias Canetti

It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible…

— Vasco Ronchi

In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked.…

— Nicole Krauss

The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of…

— Harold Rosenberg

I'm not bullish. I think they [Iran] have total disrespect for our country and I understand that deal. I would have lived…

— Donald Trump

The reality is just the opposite: the master does nothing. It is in your becoming a disciple that the whole mystery lies.…

— Rajneesh

For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national…

— Patrick Swift

I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent…

— Abraham Lincoln

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless…

— Thomas Merton

A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us.…

— Cecelia Ahern

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral…

— Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious…

— Jennifer Egan

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Sigmund Freud

It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself…

— Alexander McCall Smith

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.

— Paul Krugman

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

— David Mazzucchelli

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares…

— J. D. Salinger

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

— Geneen Roth

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

— Emily Giffin

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.

— Suzanne Collins

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

— Aristotle

As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.

— Gilbert Arenas

Its like theres arrows above our heads pointing in opposite directions. You are going one way and I am going the other…

— Jenna Bognar

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

— Hugh Dancy

It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built…

— Laura Dern