If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in… — Kate Flannery Copy Share Image
I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same. — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? My Mind is divided… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to… — Dick York Copy Share Image
Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Team members need to feel trusted and valued, and micromanaging communicates the opposite. Founders who are prone to manage every detail of… — Martin Zwilling Copy Share Image
At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Don't think of the Internet as a broadcast medium...think of it as a conversational space. Conversation is the opposite of marketing. It's… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Having a child is the polar opposite experience of the awards season experience. The awards-season experience requires you to be out in… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure,… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
There is no quality that we respond to in another that we lack. It might be hidden behind some bad behavior or… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track. — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you look for a story, and the story has to have conflict and a match of opposites. — Frederic Tcheng Copy Share Image
Donald Trump as a figurehead is the opposite of that - he's regression, he's taking a step backward. — Ansel Elgort Copy Share Image
I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite.… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work. — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
People had said to me New York is kind of cutthroat and people walk past you on the street. I find it… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
I saw on this nature show how the male elk douses himself with urine to smell sweeter to the opposite sex. What… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man. — Robert Prechter Copy Share Image
When I go home, I am a slug. I want to do everything completely opposite of what I do on the red… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
