“Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.” WritingFightingTroubleCryStudentsOppositesSecretaryDiplomacyImportsEmbassy Author:Carlos Fuentes
“When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.” SometimesLaughingCryOppositesUpset Author:Freddie Highmore
“It's a film made in a very radical creative manner. It was possible because we didn't have to pander to capitalism. I think the film is also a humanistic cry for help for animation. It's a film [Boy and the World] with sensitivities completely opposite to what the market wants to sell.” ThinkingWorldWantMadeHelpingFilmBoysCreativeCryCapitalismOppositesSellsRadicalSensitivityAnimationHumanistic Author:Alex Abreu
“Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.” PeopleTryingLyingCryOppositesMake Me Smile Author:Joyce Giraud
“Humans were my study animal now - I set up night watches on them, and I made phonograms of the noises they make. I studied their cries, and their contact calls, and their alarm signals. I never listened to what they were saying - I watched what they were doing, which is really the exact opposite of the Freuds and Jungs and Adlers.” HumansMadeNightAnimalWatchesStudyCryOppositesNoiseContactSignalsAlarmsJungAdler Author:Bill Mollison
“Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that.” CryMy FamilyOppositesExpectedMachoRanchers Author:Tom Ford
“My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction.” WantGivingKindProblemWantedFeltParentGrowing UpGrowingFrontsCryOkayOppositesSatisfactionGrossPolar Opposites Author:Lucas Hedges
“In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.” ShouldHandsPainJoyCausesEffectsCryProduceStrangeOppositesThrustEmbers Book:Frankenstein Source: Frankenstein
“Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears. But the feeling Colin had was some horrible opposite of crying. It was you, minus something. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage.” ThinkingFeelingsFeltForeverCryTearsOppositesAddHorribleBurningPlusCagesAcheOne WordRibsMinusRib Cage Book:An Abundance of Katherines Source: An Abundance of Katherines
“If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?” IfsHumorFunnyClearFailingCryCommunicationFailureOppositesRevolutionaryMonkRebellious Author:Anton Chekhov