Opposite Quotes

1850 Opposite quotes by 1397 unique authors

Straightway is a power word. Straightway is an action word. It means immediately, without delay or hesitation. It means at once. Also, it is associated… — Marvin J. Ashton
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say,… — Al McGuire
There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if… — Rosa Parks
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others.… — Archibald MacLeish
Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it,… — Dale Carnegie
Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life. — Mahmoud Darwish
The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin. — Gayle Forman
It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself feel the opposite… — Alexander McCall Smith
There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite. — Marcel Proust
The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a… — Howard Dean
I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I… — Andrew Solomon
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite… — Martin Seligman
This book is called "Blue Nights" because at the time I began it I found my mind turning increasingly to illness, to the end of… — Joan Didion
For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism. — Jason Mraz
Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The… — Graeme Goldsworthy
It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective… — Martin Van Creveld
Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite of death is… — Nando Parrado
It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way.… — Rory Bremner
Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work. — Jill Vialet
Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing. — Daisy Whitney
The opposite of nature is impossible. — R. Buckminster Fuller
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult. — Kurt Tucholsky
Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction… — Unknown Author
We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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