Opposite Quotes
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You can't live like a monk if you have two five-year-old twins. That ain't happening. Just the opposite, actually.
Scott Ellis
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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 don't know, why am I called the opposite of what I am? It's very confusing to me.
Brad Williams
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“The opposite of fear,” Bertrice said, “is a plan, and I have a plan. So no, I am not afraid.
Courtney Milan
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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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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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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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Start to think differently. The reason why the majority of people fail is that they all think the same. One of the biggest secrets of life is, do the exact polar opposite of what everybody else is doing.
Nik Halik
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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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The opposite of every truth is just as true.
Hermann Hesse
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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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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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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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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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Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.
Confucius
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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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I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.
Amanda Craig
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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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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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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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At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey
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Consuming is the opposite of producing.
Noah Kagan
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Discovering a new phobia was like the opposite of falling in love.
Charlie Jane Anders