Opposite Quotes
1850 Opposite quotes by 1397 unique authors
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In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
— Robert Reich
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Let me give you a hint, young ones, what it is you will become as you grow. What things make you cry, what things bring…
— Stefanie Schneider
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The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried…
— Marcel Proust
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield…
— Karl Abraham
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When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.
— Horace
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The next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life…
— Rick Warren
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It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.
— Lawrence Summers
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It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the…
— Elias Canetti
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The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off…
— George Reisman
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To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.
— Margaret Thatcher
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference,
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film. . . . I think that’s really…
— Todd Haynes
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Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social…
— Joseph Roth
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For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be…
— James Nachtwey
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Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge.…
— Philipp Meyer
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One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.
— Michael Bloomberg
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