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“Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.”

People Ifs Knows Men Needs Ends Certain Acting Nice Like You Opposites Legacy Extras Being Nice Stereotype Backwards Bending Man Hater Bending Over

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant.”

Ifs Circumstances Opposites Tables All Time Manners Gentleman Kicks Misunderstood Etiquette Liable Dining Pleasantries

Book:The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

Source: The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll

“In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.”

Ifs Two Opinion Opposites Reasonable Two Opposites

Book:The works ...

Source: The works ...

“If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and will stand forever. If the transgression of God's law produces sickness, it is right to be sick; and we cannot if we would, and should not if we could, annul the decrees of wisdom. It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter,--the truth that disease is unreal.”

Ifs Men Should Mind Matter Law Evil Belief Causes Forever Produce Divine Disease Opposites Sick Illness Be Good Mortals Sickness Remedy Unreal Decree Transgression

Author:Mary Baker Eddy

“Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.”

Ifs Life Matter Seems Life Is Streets Walking Crosses Opposites Obstacles Fewer Crowded Life Is Like Pavement Getting Along Crowded Streets

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earth’s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for … the origin of chains of high mountains … and the rise of lava to the earth’s surface.”

“He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion”

Ifs Knows May Littles Doe Has Beens Reason Able Sides Opinion Cases Argument Opposites Be Good

Book:J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

Source: J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

“If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?”

Ifs Humor Government Funny Progress Opposites Witty

Author:Paul Harvey

“As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that in its turn grows old, and they require to distinguish themselves by other things. Thus if they attain their goal in some art or science, we must expect them soon to cast it aside to acquire some fresh fame, and this is partly the reason why the most splendid ages degenerate so quickly, and, scarcely emerged from barbarism, plunge into it again.”

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.”

Ifs World Should Mean Hands Earth Fire Authority Destruction Opposites Destroyed Agents Heat Assured

Book:The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

Source: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)

“I cannot see why a taste for the country should be held so very indispensable a requisite for excellence; but really people talk of it as if it were a virtue, and as if an opposite opinion was, to say the least of it, very immoral.”

People Ifs Should Country Opinion Virtue Taste Opposites Excellence Indispensable Immoral

Book:The Complete Works of L.E. Landon

Source: The Complete Works of L.E. Landon

“It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.”

Ifs Wells Individual Sports Happened Shots Opposites Baseball Golf Fingers

Author:Albert Belle

“We must never put our dreams of success as God's purpose for us; His purpose may be exactly the opposite. His purpose is that I depend on HIM and in HIS power NOW. His end is the process. It is the process, not the end, which is glorifying to God....His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. We have nothing to do with the 'afterwards' of obedience. If we have a further end in view, we do not pay sufficient attention to the immediate present; if we realize that obedience is the end, then each moment as it comes is precious.”

Ifs May Ends Moments Dream Purpose Process Realizing Views Pay Attention Minutes Depends Opposites Obedience Sufficient Our Dreams

Author:Oswald Chambers

“I think if you're too concerned with being cool or hip or liked, you can't really make good TV because sincerity and coolness are opposites.”

Ifs Thinking Tvs Concerned Opposites Hips Sincerity Being Cool Coolness

Author:Michael Schur

“With any television series - and it's something that is taken for granted with movies because you have the whole arc within two hours - you establish who the character is and it's a two-dimensional version, or if you're lucky, a two and a half-dimensional character. Once you establish that, you can move forward and break all the rules. Once the audience has accepted who the person is, then you can do the exact opposite. What makes it funny and interesting is doing the opposite.”

Ifs Persons Two Character Moving Can Do Interesting Half Break Audience Television Lucky Opposites Series Accepted Versions Moving Forward

Author:Rashida Jones

“I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.”

Ifs Writing Order Ego Opposites

Author:Rob Chapman

“The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Existence Theory Balance Offers Music Is Opposites Filled Good Things Exception Joyous Bleak Respite

Author:George Carlin

“If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine. I'm sure sociologists can come up with distinctions about what's different between men and women, but for every example you can give about what a woman does, you can come up with an opposite example of other women who don't do that. Those are more artificial distinctions, I think.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Doe Different Pay Attention Example Men And Women Opposites Come Up Honestly Pay Attention Distinction Feminine Artificial Masculine Sociologists

Author:Wayne Dyer

“We have to have a vision of the world we want to make in 100 years. And maybe when we have that vision, when we convince enough people that that is a realistic vision, and that the opposite vision is basically that if we don't do something in this 100 years, a hundred years from now this world is gonna be so destroyed, so raped and ravished that we won't HAVE much of a world to save.”

People Ifs World Want Years Enough Vision This World Hundred Opposites Destroyed Convince Realistic

Author:Assata Shakur

“If you are going to help people discover God's original will for them, we've got to know what that will is, and He said it very clear in Scripture: He created man to have to dominion over earth. He wanted to establish man's authority on earth to represent heaven on earth, and most of our theological philosophy is completely opposite of that.”

People Ifs Knows Men Said Philosophy Helping Wanted Earth Heaven Clear Authority Opposites Originals Scripture Dominion Theological Heaven On Earth

Author:Myles Munroe

“If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade.”

Ifs Humor Running Funny Opposites Boring Never Change Parades

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“If you don't know a light bulb is a three-way light bulb, it messes with your head. You reach to turn it off, and it just gets brighter! That's the exact opposite of what I wanted you to do! So you turn the switch again, and it gets brighter once more! I will break you, light bulb!”

Ifs Knows Way Humor Light Wanted Funny Turns Three Break Opposites Mess Brighter Bulbs Light Bulb Three Ways

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I was so tired, wasn't having fun any more, and wasn't sure if I wanted to do this any longer. So I turned my phone off and sorted my head out. It was the opposite of a breakdown really, it was a break-up - I got rid of all the idiots, realised my job was supposed to be fun, and got on with my life.”

Ifs Wanted Jobs Fun Break Opposites Tired Phones Supposed To Be Idiot Having Fun Realised Breakdown

Author:Simon Cowell

“To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent.”

Ifs Inspirational Art Spirit Artist Literature Talent Source Genius Glory Opposites Chains Related Links Ancestor Nobility Aristocracy

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not fence sit. Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction.”

Ifs Knows Stills Moving Universe Process Sides Inspiring Steps Feet Movement Walking Ten Standing Opposites Legs Swings Fence Right Direction Standing Still

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked for. Malcolm Gladwell, in his newest book "David and Goliath," writes about how sometimes things that we think of as handicaps often times are just the opposite. Or the reverse is also true.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Writing Book Sometimes Laughing Willing Opposites Reverse Handicaps Goliath

Author:Bruce Greenwood

“A quarter-horse jockey learns to think of a twenty-second race as if it were occurring across twenty minutes--in distinct parts, spaced in his consciousness. Each nuance of the ride comes to him as he builds his race. If you can do the opposite with deep time, living in it and thinking in it until the large numbers settle into place, you can sense how swiftly the initial earth packed itself together, how swiftly continents have assembled and come apart, how far and rapidly continents travel, how quickly mountains rise and how quickly they disintegrate and disappear.”

Ifs Thinking Earth Together Can Do Numbers Race Consciousness Minutes Mountain Opposites Horse Twenties Disappear Settling Quarters Continents Initials Large Numbers Nuance Jockeys

Author:John McPhee

“"Nought usually comes at the beginning," Ralph said. "Not necessarily," said Sibyl. "It might come anywhere. Nought isn't a number at all. It's the opposite of number." Nancy looked up from the cards. "Got you, aunt," she said. "What about ten? Nought's a number there - it's part of ten." "Well, if you say that any mathematical arrangement of one and nought really makes ten - " Sibyl smiled. "Can it possibly be more than a way of representing ten?"”

Ifs Way Wells Said Might Numbers Ten Opposites Mathematics Cards Mathematical Arrangements Aunt Representing Nancy

Author:Charles Williams

“Well the thing is, once you have a snow leopard it's difficult to go back. Everything is going to be slightly disappointing. It's very telling what your choice would be. Because that's probably how you see yourself. We used to play that game as kids and you'd say if you were animal what would you be and it'd usually be the opposite of what it should be. But all animals have got their virtues. You know, cockroaches got virtues.”

Ifs Knows Should Wells Play Would Be Kids Used Choices Games Difficult Animal Virtue Opposites Snow Disappointing Cockroaches Leopards Snow Leopards

Author:Daniel Craig

“The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.”

Ifs Way Trying Wanted Lasts Roles Picks Opposites Complete Opposites

Author:Anne Hathaway

“With a comedian, it's the opposite. You put that album out, and they've heard it. If they're coming out to see you, you'd better be doing new stuff. There's always a tiny part of the audience that want to hear certain bits of yours, or they've brought friends to see you, and they've told them about some of your bits. Then maybe you should do them.”

Ifs Want Should Certain Stuff Bits Audience Heard Opposites Albums Tiny Comedian Coming Out New Stuff

Author:Patton Oswalt

“I originally welcomed the mobile phone as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.”

Ifs Knows Tree Effects Office Sitting Opposites Phones Branches Mobile Mobile Phones

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“The problem a lot of writers have is that they really, really enjoy people saying, "You're brilliant." They let their self-perception be dictated by reader response. But if you're going to let other people make you feel good, you're going to end up feeling bad when they say the opposite. You've got to be a cultural stoic. Then you won't be devastated by people who respond negatively. Of course, the downside is that it sort of stops you from being able to enjoy people liking your work.”

“Many young people today do not concern themselves with style. They think that what one says should be said simply and that is all. For me, style - which does not exclude simplicity, quite the opposite - is above all a way of saying three or four things in one. There is the simple sentence, with its immediate meaning, and then at the same time, below this immediate meaning, other meanings are organized. If one is not capable of giving language this plurality of meaning, then it is not worth the trouble to write.”

Source: Sartre in the Seventies: Interviews and Essays

“The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else out there.”

Ifs Mean Facts Today Beautiful Effects Opposites Beautiful Images

Author:Wim Wenders

“A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.”

Ifs Knows Two Important Sometimes Hard Facts Heaven Stuff Pay Fantasy Opposites Driving Gears Cogs

Author:Fynn

“If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!”

Ifs Way May Persons Ideas Sound Chance Greater Stupid Opposites Contrary Stupid Person

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of being blessed by belonging. If the universe is an unfolding bud, then I am a part of its creative surge, along with the flowing of water and the growing of pines. I can find a kind of camaraderie in this universe, once I recover from the astonishment of it. Or maybe not camaraderie exactly. What is the opposite of loneliness?”

Ifs Thinking Kind I Can Feelings Universe Water Creative Growing Loneliness Smart Opposites Blessed Belonging Bud Unfolding Astonishment Camaraderie Being Blessed

Author:Kathleen Moore

“At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!”

People Ifs Children Two Whole Facts Life Is Certain Christ Half Adults Opposites Meetings Saved Whole Life

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not be achievable at all - or, at best, only intermittently and unconsciously - and may even turn into its opposite if directly pursued, but that it frequently turns up unexpectedly in the course of pursuing something else. There is no tease more infuriating...It is tempting to forget the whole thing and simply fall back on the couch with a remote control in one hand and a beer in the other.”

Ifs May Whole Hands Turns Fall Courses Forget Impossible Opposites Beer Absurdity Embarrassing Pursued Couches Tease Fall Back Tempting Infuriating Remote Control

Author:Michael Foley

“William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!”

Ifs Men Made Said Country Would Be Opposites Towns

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A given circle cannot be so true that a truer one cannot be found; and the movement of a sphere at one moment is never precisely equal to its movement at another, nor does it ever describe two circles similar and equal, even if from appearances the opposite may seem true.”

Ifs May Doe Two Moments Seems Found Given Movement Equal Opposites Appearance Circles Spheres

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.”

Source: Aristotle: the art of rhetoric

“If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas.”

Ifs Want Trying Mean Ideas Done Creativity Creative Negative Opposites Impulse Something New Yield Good Ideas Be Creative Frustrating

Author:Eva Zeisel

“If a character is going to end up one way, you start them a certain way. If they're gonna end up the polar opposite of that, you might start them differently to have dramatic integrity to their journey.”

Ifs Way Ends Character Might Certain Journey Integrity Opposites One Way Dramatic Polar Opposites

Author:Neil Burger

“If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction.”

Ifs Running Night Girl Opposites Girls Night

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.”

Ifs May Courses Opposites Statements

Author:Niels Bohr

“Very well, then: why are you attached to any one book, or to the words and ways of one saint when he himself tells you to let them go and walk in simplicity? To hang on to him as if to make a method of him is to contradict him and to go in the opposite direction to the one in which he would have you travel.”

Ifs Way Wells Book Walks Opposites Method Simplicity Saint

Author:Thomas Merton

“The church must seek to be biblical rather than relevant. We are not going to leave a mark upon our culture because we have studied its ways and adapted ourselves to it. We are relevant when we reject the world outright and are its polar opposite! This present darkness provides a great opportunity for the church to be the salt of the earth, but if we mix with the very impurities we are supposed to expose... we are as useless as our culture already believes us to be.”

Ifs World Way Believe Earth Culture Opportunity Church Darkness Opposites Mark Useless Rejects Relevant Salt Biblical Adapted Great Opportunity Impurity Polar Opposites Salt Of The Earth

Author:Paul Washer

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