Opposite Quotes

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Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do. — Cristiano Ronaldo
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid. — Rita Rudner
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. — Bertrand Russell
The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone… — Jonathan Sacks
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest… — Jonathan Sacks
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true.… — Francoise Sagan
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite… — Sharon Salzberg
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. — George Santayana
I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems. — Marilyn vos Savant
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. — Arthur Schopenhauer
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in… — E F Schumacher
When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the… — Jill Scott
The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness… — Will Self
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if… — Nate Silver
It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director… — Simon Sinek
I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free… — Mark Skousen
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between… — Sydney Smith
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the… — Zadie Smith
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. — Susan Sontag
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. — Thomas Sowell
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others.… — Thomas Sowell
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. — Alex Steffen
There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work… — Alex Steffen

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