Opposite Quotes
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him.
Catherine Mary Stewart
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Some people can have a dark side, completely the opposite of the image they portray.
Azran Osman Rani
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You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.
Robert Wise
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My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.
Susan Ford
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Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
Deena Metzger
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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 to forget that.
Haruki Murakami
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The reaction of the fans being on the field and then seeing how you kind of want it to come out, then seeing the exact opposite all in a matter of minutes. People were pretty shocked and devastated.
Brady Quinn
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Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.
Plato
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I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel
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As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap.
Gilbert Arenas
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What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
Joseph de Maistre
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When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.
Raza Jaffrey
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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.
Plato
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If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey
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In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
Tim Ferriss
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Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.
Confucius
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I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.
Amanda Craig
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I'm pretty chill, but once birth starts, I go the opposite of chill.
Walker Hayes
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To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.
Isaac Newton
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Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Bill Cosby
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There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.
Joseph Fiennes
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Consuming is the opposite of producing.
Noah Kagan