Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that. — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or opposite or greater advantage or benefit. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close… — Ben Hogan Copy Share Image
Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
I’ve been lucky, so lucky, working with [...] Rachel (McAdams) on The Notebook. A big draw for me, when I do a… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Education is implication. It is not the things you say which children respect; when you say things, they very commonly laugh and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to… — Bryan A. Garner Copy Share Image
Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience. — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe… — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
I found out why opposites attract when I met you. It's because everything I'm not, you are, and the pieces fit together… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does. — William Delbert Gann Copy Share Image
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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
Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death. — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do. — Cristiano Ronaldo 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
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
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