Opposites Quotes

1717 Opposites quotes by 1276 unique authors

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA,… — Chita Rivera
A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party… — Mike Thompson
I saw on this nature show how the male elk douses himself with urine to smell sweeter to the opposite sex. What a coincidence! — Jack Handey
Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas. — Thomas Lansing Masson
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is… — Edwin Percy Whipple
No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things. — Epictetus
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands… — Peter Brook
Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November,… — Donald Hall
Kids don't say, "Wait." They say, "Wait up, hey wait up!" Because when you're little, your life is up. The future is up. Everything you… — Jerry Seinfeld
Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples.… — Mark Dvoretsky
Consuming is the opposite of producing. — Noah Kagan
From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way,… — Paul Newman
I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love. — Marilyn Monroe
If we doubt that the foundation for inner work is compassion for self and self-honoring behavior, we need only remind ourselves that the opposite approach,… — John Earle
Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink,… — Martin Luther
Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people… — Hippocrates
Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've… — Kenneth Chenault
Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players… — Alexander Kotov
God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted… — Rick Warren
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
How little has situation to do with happiness. The happy individual uses their intelligence to realise things could be worse and therefore is grateful and… — Fanny Burney
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud… — H. L. Mencken
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their… — A. N. Wilson
The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Prosperity is the opposite of greedy. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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