Opposites Quotes

1717 Opposites quotes by 1276 unique authors

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite! — Walter Winchell
I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite.… — Unknown Author
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both… — Eli Siegel
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions.… — S. J. Perelman
Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. — Henry Mintzberg
The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in… — Marshall Goldsmith
It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away… — Martin Buber
What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell… — Bernard Arnault
... once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night ... backstage Michael… — Barry Goldberg
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment. — Andrew Solomon
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. The term ‘hero’ irritates me greatly… — Irena Sendler
As more and more people wake up to the fact that further growth does not necessarily bring improvements in quality of life (and often exactly… — Jonathon Porritt
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house. — Renzo Piano
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. — Abba Eban
A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another",… — Unknown Author
Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its giving. This is… — Walter Russell
Verily has man freewill to control his actions. That my Father-Mother has given to man as his inheritance. But the control of the ractions to… — Walter Russell
Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action… — Walter Russell
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being… — Parker J. Palmer
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside....… — Terence McKenna
From my point of view the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no Anarchist can commit such… — Jo Labadie
It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of… — Unknown Author
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the… — Epictetus
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda. — Deborah Eisenberg
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for… — Jeane Kirkpatrick

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