“People ask me whether I think that one day I might wake up one morning and run dry, but I've had the opposite feeling - that I would die before I had time to write all the ideas in my drawer.” PeopleThinkingWritingIdeasFeelingsMightRunningDiesAsksMorningOne DayOppositesWake UpAsk MeDryDrawers Author:Woody Allen
“(The Weakest Link) is fascinating program. They ask a bunch of people questions and they keep getting rid of the dumbest person, so just the smartest person is left. It is kind of the opposite way we elect a president.” PeopleWayKindPersonsAsksLeftPresidentProgramOppositesBunchFascinatingLinksWeakest Link Author:Jay Leno
“I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give her good advice, and she'd say: 'I entirely agree. Paul, you're so right.' Then she'd go and do the opposite.” GivingUsedAsksAdviceOppositesAgreeLunchPrincessGood AdviceDiana Author:Paul Johnson
“As soon as we ask what faith is and what sort of mistreatment of faith causes doubt, we are led to the first major misconception about doubt-the idea that doubt is always wrong because it is the opposite of faith and the same thing as unbelief. What this error leads to is a view of faith that is unrealistic and a view of doubt that is unfair.” FirstsIdeasAsksCausesViewsDoubtMajorsOppositesErrorsUnfairMisconceptionUnbeliefAlways WrongMistreatment Author:Os Guinness
“People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the positive and negative volts on a battery, you need both for power.” PeopleIfsNeedsBelieveAsksI BelieveNegativeOppositesI Believe InAsk MeAstrologyBatteriesVolt Author:John Patrick Shanley
“If you just open your dictionary, "morality" is the sense that separates good from evil. And if you really want to see what evil is, it just says that "evil is the opposite of good." And if you ask "Then what is good?" it says that it's the opposite of evil.” IfsWantEvilAsksMoralityOppositesDictionary Author:Gaspar Noe
“Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.” IfsThinkingWellsFactsAsksOppositesGood TimesDeclinePollsIndicators Author:Nate Silver
“It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.” PeopleKnowsWorldFactsAsksAnswersExampleLessonsDirectorsOppositesFortuneCuriosityGuidesLoadGood FortuneChildlikeGuide MeRouge Author:Simon Sinek
“When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.” PeopleAsksStrongGainsOppositesDisorderFragileResilientRobustAdaptable Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanSoulAsksCourageOppositesAgree Book:The Common Reader Source: The Common Reader
“Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.” KnowsNeedsBelieveAsksAuthorityOppositesCriticalAbsenceFacultyHistorianCredibility Author:Ernst Junger
“You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love into it, it will respond. The first lesson of love is not to ask for love, but just to give. Become a giver. And people are doing just the opposite. Even when they give, they give only with the idea that love should come back. It is a bargain. They don't share, they don't share freely. They share with a condition. They go on watching out of the corner of their eye whether it is coming back or not. Very poor people... they don't know the natural functioning of love.” PeopleIfsKnowsLoveGivingShouldFirstsHeartIdeasEyeAsksNaturalLove IsPoorShareConditionsGoes OnLessonsOppositesCornersValleysPoor PeopleComing BackGiverBargains Author:Rajneesh
“I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet.” IfsKnowsWantWellsFeelingsAsksToo MuchColdProtectOppositesKnow MeAccusedPrivate LifeTouch MeInner FeelingsSnobbish Author:Grace Kelly
“I dont mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if Im in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.” IfsWantMindI CanHandsAsksAttentionMiddleDrawsOppositesCome UpAsk MeRestaurantsShakesJerk Author:Macaulay Culkin