Opposite Quotes

1850 Opposite quotes by 1397 unique authors

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership. — Margaret Heffernan
I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is… — John Oliver
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy,… — Elie Wiesel
I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school.… — Brian K. Vaughan
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let… — AndrÃ© Aciman
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. — Eric Hoffer
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for… — Graham Greene
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening… — William Shakespeare
The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty. — Anne Lamott
She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite,… — Julio Cortazar
Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps… — John Piper
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership… — Tom Robbins
The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an… — Joan Bauer
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and… — Audre Lorde
Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I… — C.S. Lewis
Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations.… — Derrick Jensen
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved… — Henry Miller
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. — May Sarton
...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for… — Richard Dawkins
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look… — E. M. Forster
The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom. — Tim Ferriss
He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into… — C.S. Lewis
In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Who Wrote These Opposite Quotes

1,397 authors contributed a total of 1,850 Opposite Quotes, led by these top contributors: