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“I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.”

Kids Mother Father Felt Dangerous Football Quiet Opposites Baseball Profession Boxers Mother And Father

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“I left for the same reasons everyone leaves jobs that are no longer fulfilling their hopes and aspirations. I didn't see myself spending the rest of my life being a strummer for someone else's dreams. Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bullshit and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.”

Reason Dream Jobs Opportunity Left Felt Decision Millions Creative Regret Needed Fame Opposites Mirrors Spending Aspiration Bullshit Fulfilling

Author:Mark Knopfler

“When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.”

Looks Felt Chance Needed Prove Opposites Pressure Take A Chance Chances In Life

Author:Shane Filan

“I felt a lot of ambivalence about going back to graduate school for a second MFA. The impulse was really the opposite from what it had been more than a decade before: I wanted to interrupt a career.”

Wanted School Felt Careers Opposites Decades Impulse Graduates Graduate School Ambivalence

Author:Garth Greenwell

“I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.”

Ifs Felt Goal Steps Clear Written Needed Opposites Accounts Wings Setting Settings Reasoning Setting Goals Overachiever Written Goals

Author:Edwina Findley

“I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.”

People Felt Opposites Exciting Disillusioned

Author:Alden Ehrenreich

“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.”

Want Giving Kind Problem Wanted Felt Parent Growing Up Growing Fronts Cry Okay Opposites Satisfaction Gross Polar Opposites

Author:Lucas Hedges

“Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.”

Felt Opposites Devotion Conservatism

Book:The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941

“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

Love Doe Two Different Desire Passion Felt Sleep Numbers Opposites Infinite Making Love Unbearable One Woman Lightness Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness

Author:Milan Kundera

“It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.”

Feels Wanted Lying Felt Opposites Hot Heat Deceit

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“Lucas should've run out of there that instant. Instead he stared at me through the glass and slowly unfolded his hand opposite mine so that our hands were pressed againts the pane of glass, fingers to fingers, palm to palm. We each move closer, so that our faces were only inches apart. Even with the stained glass, window between us, it felt as intimate as any kiss we'd shared.”

Should Hands Running Faces Moving Felt Mines Kissing Window Opposites Fingers Glasses Intimate Instant Inches Palms Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows

Author:Claudia Gray

“The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.”

Way Mind Long Said Done Feelings Past Remember Felt Perfect Stupid Lows Opposites Clarity Recalls Humiliation Embarrassment Parades Stupid Things Feeling Low Picture Perfect

Book:Little Brother

Source: Little Brother

“Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.”

Next Games Felt Alive Objects Opposites Sake Convinced Narrative Staying New Things Staying Alive Pinball

Author:Jonathan Franzen

“As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite. Here, in the circle of Akiva's presence, even as they spoke of war and siege and enduring enmity, she felt herself being drawn into the warm absoluteness and rightness of him, like he was both place and person and, contrary to all reason, exactly where she was supposed to be.”

Persons War Reason Remember Felt Opposites Endure Warm Contrary Circles Supposed To Be Spokes Phantoms Enmity Siege

Author:Laini Taylor

“and they shook hands, hit each other on the shoulder, then there was forty feet of distance between them and nothing to do but drive away in opposite directions. Within a mile Ennis felt like someone was pulling his guts out hand over hand a yard at a time. He stopped at the side of the road and, in the whirling new snow, tried to puke but nothing came up. He felt about as bad as he ever had and it took a long time for the feeling to wear off.”

Long Feelings Hands Felt Sides Feet Long Time Opposites Distance Miles Shoulders Snow Guts Forty Pulling Yards Puke

Book:Brokeback Mountain

Source: Brokeback Mountain

“Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't feel like a weak, insipid sissy. Because right now I know I would save the girl. I know that I would rather risk the planet than let harm befall Eliza Wishart. I would save her in a second. Because I can imagine her and me huddled safe together while the earth falls under evil designs, but I can't imagine the world without her in it.”

Knows World Feels I Can Moments Care Earth Together Fall Girl Evil Felt Imagine Risk Design Planets Right Now Safe Weak Opposites Don't Care Harm Instance I Don't Care Because I Can Insipid Sissy

Author:Craig Silvey

“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.”

Thinking Feelings Felt Forever Cry Tears Opposites Add Horrible Burning Plus Cages Ache One Word Ribs Minus Rib Cage

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.”

Made Strong Given Felt Decision Fire Changed Pride Lovers Consequence Opposites Ashamed Making Decisions

Author:Isabel Allende

“We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.”

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