Opposite Quotes

1850 Opposite quotes by 1397 unique authors

Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need… — Frances Mayes
What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck? — Anthony Bourdain
What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like… — Jeanette Winterson
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is… — John Fowles
The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing exists without its opposite. — Chris Crutcher
It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things. — Maggie Stiefvater
Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence… — Laura Moriarty
Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to… — Sarah Dessen
Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite — Miley Cyrus
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings… — A. S. Byatt
Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the opposite of blue.… — Simone Elkeles
Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me… — Haruki Murakami
All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life.… — Rob Thurman
He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in… — Walter de La Mare
For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal… — Elizabeth Gilbert
We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable. — Daniel Handler
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. — Soren Kierkegaard
so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction. — Jodi Picoult
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties… — Ernst Junger
I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be,… — Laura Moriarty
It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of… — Douglas Adams

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