Best Opposites Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are a lot of things that I love, but if you're just completely invested in those things, their opposite can kick you over... So the trick is finding out how to maintain your balance when you're in situations with the people who make you happy and when you're not.”

People Ifs Situation Balance Findings Opposites Tricks Kicks Make You Happy

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.”

Ifs Way Want Sides Simple Talking Opposites Tables Studios Negotiating

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.”

Writing Facts Culture Opposites Thanks Genre Peter Stigma Thrillers Other Cultures Scandinavia

Author:Jo Nesbo

“When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.”

Ifs Knows World Littles Persons Ends School Girl Party High School Opposites Adolescence

Author:Jerry O'Connell

“There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.”

Jesus Poverty Birth Connections Opposites Simplicity Ceremony Jesus Birth

Author:Keith O'Brien

“My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.”

Years Two Country Hundred Opposites Twenties Opening Observation Japan Splits Ambiguity Present Day Two Opposites Modernisation

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.”

World Reason Space Creative Opposites Cerebral Yang Creative Space

Author:Kal Penn

“..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.”

“Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity...Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.”

People World Play Whole Religion Games Water Opposites Infinite Surface Whole World Rising Infinity Bubbles Rise Above Duality Brahman Dissolving

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.”

Thinking Should Persons Funny Higher Skins Opposites Thoughtful Hypocrisy Blogging

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.”

Happens Guy Fighting Sex Levels Type Members Office Smart Opposites Passionate Arguing High Level Benedick

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.”

Reality Actors Stage Opposites Agents Sharks Midwest Stage Actors

Author:Jeremy Piven

“My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they're only, like, 20. I'm the opposite of that.”

Needs Whole High School Opposites Teenager Mentality

Author:Kay Panabaker

“There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite.”

I Can Play Age Stars Opposites Males Movie Star

Author:Teresa Palmer

“Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.”

Opposites Transformation Scare Polar Opposites

Author:Alexandra Roach

“People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.”

People Opposites Chiefs Awkward Complete Opposites Chief Keef

Author:Chance the Rapper

“Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.”

Wells Kind I Can Sometimes Hard Play Winning Opposites

Author:Agnieszka Radwanska

“I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.”

Feels Looks Long Made Dream Wanted Beautiful Used Girl Fun Wish Stuff Hair Normal Opposites Absolutes American Dream Skinny Lighters Beautiful Girl

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.”

Long I Can Able Acting Havens Long Time Opposites

Author:Tammin Sursok

“I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.”

People Knows Want Walks Five New York Opposites Towns Coffee Cups Small Town Bumps Coffee Cup Maine Physical Beauty

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.”

People Persons Culture Taught Opposites Mysticism Good Person Drains

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."”

“We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.”

World Mind Ideas Space Cutting Awareness Buddhism Opposites Pairs Time And Space Duality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?”

Ifs Together Sex Loss Pleasure Creation Buddhism Opposites Unions Oneself Sexuality Temporary Coming Together What Is Life Yang Yin And Yang

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.”

Done Whole Film Turns Left Careers Opposites

Author:Kelly Lynch

“The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.”

Sometimes Seems Today Order Religious Moral Opposites Saving God Love Imperatives Prevailing Proclamation Saving Love

Book:Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

Source: Encountering Truth: Meeting God in the Everyday

“I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.”

Firsts Done Roles New York Opposites Bus Cowboy Kim Stanley Bus Stops

Author:Dick York

“Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.”

Wells Persons Enough Energy Love Is Emotion Doubt Theory Devil Opposites Treated Meaning Of Life Good Person Fickle Polar Opposites

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.”

Running Lines Fans Fine Opposites Separating Fine Lines Complete Opposites

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.”

Inspirational Moving Purpose Suffering Consciousness Opposites Painful Therapy Remove Polarity

Author:James Hollis

“A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.”

People Men Leadership Effort Conscious Opposites

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'”

Form Results Responsibility Greater Opposites Delight Gods Will Remove Complete Opposites

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.”

Source: Killosophy

“There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.”

Ifs Made Next Decision Mouths Opposites Convinced Hello Right Decision

Author:Rich Lowry

“Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.”

Children Sometimes Opposites

Author:Tommy Lee

“I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.”

Done Careers Opposites

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.”

Kind Mean Persons Turns Heard Opposites Decent

Author:RJ Mitte

“I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.”

Thinking World Heart Guy Cutting Opposites Clean Decent Complete Opposites

Author:A. J. McLean

“I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.”

Play Opposites Great Times

Author:Wilmer Valderrama

“Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious. This intuitive or relaxed approach to study is the polar opposite of traditional and mainstream forms of education.”

Mind Two Form Study Genius Approach Conscious Opposites Mindset Speed Traditional Developing Two Things Mainstream Subconscious Relaxed Intuitive Subconscious Mind Polar Opposites

Author:James Morcan

“Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.”

Opposites Dogmatism

Author:John Ralston Saul

“Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.”

Two Ends Universe Effects Produce Opposites Affected Particles

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day's game. It's not a vacation - most guys view the road as a business trip.”

People Thinking Guy Next Games Views Opposites Majority Hotel Vacation Next Day Teammate Hotel Lobby Business Trips

Author:Kevin Durant

“Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality.”

Thinking Two Reality Term Christ Natural Failing Concepts Opposites Ultimate Originals Sacred Unity Rational Realms Static Profane

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I've found that if I tell somebody 'Eat this and don't do that,' it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive because even more than being healthy, we want to feel free and in control, and as soon as somebody tells us to do something, there's a tendency to do just the opposite.”

Ifs Want Feels Found Healthy Opposites Tendencies Helpful Counterproductive

Author:Dean Ornish

“At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.”

Want Doe Philosophy Comfort Opposites And Love Bottom Hungry Awful Excitement Desperate Stomach Appetite Starving Converses Very True

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want I Can Stories Light Past Girl Needed Terrible Opposites Seasons Shining Golden Wicked Get Back Prime Do You Know Springtime Parish Daffodil

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.”

Feels Given Situation Opposites Nine Charming

Book:Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush

Source: Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush

“The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.”

Leader Opposites Followers Pessimist

Book:The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success

Source: The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success

“Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists believe that it is possible to socialize everything without tyranny.”

Way Believe Crazy Opposites Libertarian Tyranny Communism Communist Anarchy Libertarianism

Author:Michael Lind

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