Opposites Quotes · Page 41

We could avoid the people that love us and be stuck to the people that throw us under the bus. THATS WRONG.

— $Teady

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

— Plato

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

— Judith Jamison

“I know that opposites attract, but who the hell wants to spend time with an opposite?”

— Brent Hartinger

You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite…

— Luke Wilson

In this world we see the pairs of opposites. Ultimately there are no oppositions. In the superconscious awareness there is no division.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Confucius

Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now,…

— Sister Souljah

I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a…

— Catherine Breillat

Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes…

— Mary Blakely

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found…

— Ray Lewis

I think a lot of times, when you're working in this business, and you're both actors or somehow involved in the industry,…

— Katie Aselton

If the group has a negative social mood, believing that tomorrow will be worse than today, the bias goes in the opposite…

— John L. Casti

Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to…

— Natalie Portman

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension,…

— Frank Mankiewicz

No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to…

— Anthony de Mello

[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills…

— Anonymous

Since we are provided with both a body and a mind, we grasp onto the physical forms we see. Since we are…

— Dogen

A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look…

— Sergio Aragones

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely…

— Ernst Haeckel

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite…

— Earl Wilson

Then Lady Chiltern argued the matter on views directly opposite to those which she had put forward when discussing the matter with…

— Anthony Trollope

None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite.

— Neale Donald Walsch

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

— Max Muller

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about…

— Casper Crump

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine…

— Criss Jami

A lot of those people aren't their best salesmen. They're the opposite of a salesperson and I think there's something attractive about…

— John Turturro

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty…

— Bryan Stevenson

Some people can have a dark side, completely the opposite of the image they portray.

— Azran Osman Rani

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by…

— Rush Limbaugh

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

— Stephen King

We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions

— Walter Russell

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

— Douglas Coupland

The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the devil's] own…

— Hans Nielsen Hauge

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the…

— Oliver Herford