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“Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. "Really?" said one. No you idiot," I said in disgust. "I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads.”

Knows Want Wells Said Eye Turns Left Ability Talking Know How Opposites Twenties Miles Bunch Idiot Disgusting Ninety Exit Bossy Gps

Author:James Patterson

“I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her to love him.” Saiman arched his eyebrows, imitating me. “And?” "You’re the exact opposite of him. You lack the capacity to love, so you want to smother mine as well.”

Knows Men Want Wells Mines Return My Friends Capacity Opposites Eyebrows Imitating Capacity To Love

Book:Magic Bleeds

Source: Magic Bleeds

“[True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.”

World Want Space Forget Clear Pieces Share Opposites Blue Who You Are Extraordinary Glasses What You Want Glorious Awe Sunrise Epiphany True Beauty North Of Beautiful

Author:Justina Chen

“Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.”

Want Giving Children Wanted Turns Grows Silence Growing Up Generations Information Opposites Independence Affection Stillness Swings Crave Elusive Pendulums

Author:Laura Moriarty

“I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the opposite of blue. I don’t want blue. Blue confuses me too much. Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with.”

Knows Want Enough Eye Deals Brain Too Much Easier Opposites Blue Staring Chocolate Register Dizzy Clouded

Author:Simone Elkeles

“The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.”

“God does not want to control you, or stifle you, or manipulate you, or force you to do anything you don't want to do. Quite the opposite. God will let you do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it, with whomever you want to do it, and as often as you want to do it. When was the last time God stopped you from doing anything?”

Want Doe Lasts Force Opposites Gods Will Last Time Manipulate Do Whatever You Want

Book:The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose

Source: The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose

“You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.”

Want Wish Secret One Thing Opposites

Author:Deb Caletti

“Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.”

Ifs Want Sides Lines Sleep Middle Crosses Opposites Bedroom Want To Sleep

Book:The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

Source: The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale

“I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.”

Want Stills Self Together Identity Opposites Embrace Dancing Dependent Sense Of Self Paradoxical

Book:The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture and can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to want to protect oneself. Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment. Wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of almighty God. Not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross.”

“I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.”

Want Made Happiness Destiny Opposites My Destiny

Author:Hermann Hesse

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.”

Want Made Ideas Bears Opposites Expecting No Exit Expecting Something

Book:Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre

Source: Three European plays: Ring round the moon [by] Jean Anouilh, The queen and the rebels [by] Ugo Betti, In camera [by] Jean-Paul Sartre

“Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.”

Want Trying Opposites Wrong Things Shovels Try Your Best

Author:Daniel Handler

“Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.”

Ifs Way Want Life May Ends Faces Moving Sides Lines Path Wall Depends Lovers Built Opposites Lips Obstacles Accidents Cards Fixed Touching Magnet Juliet Filing

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.”

Want Firsts Helping Dies Actors Enjoy Acting Trouble Healthy Opposites Competition Rate Refuse Acknowledge Competing Avoidance Good Actors Peacefulness Healthy Competition

Author:Michael Shurtleff

“If we want to overcome fear, we must mentally deny fear and concentrate on the opposite quality, courage. The positive always overcomes the negative. The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.”

Ifs Want War Quality Yoga Negative Opposites Overcoming Deny Sweat Overcoming Fear

Author:Vishnudevananda Saraswati

“The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images of one another. The research man does something and does not care [exactly] what it is that happens, he measures whatever it is. The inventor wants something to happen, but does not care how it happens or what it is that happens if it is not what he wants.”

Ifs Men Want Doe Happens Care Results Research Opposites Mirrors Operations Confused Chemicals Want Something Examination Inventor Measurement Mirror Image

Author:Reginald Fessenden

“There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.”

World Way Want Christian Religious Opposites Pressure

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.”

Want Looks Problem Faces Nations Military Danger Opposites Nails Hammers Military Power Great Military

Author:Robert Kagan

“Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them.”

Way Want May Has Beens Play Winning Basketball Approach Opposites Clubs Officials Regulation Right Way Abiding Rules And Regulations

Author:Don Shula

“Martin, Dave, and I get together and rough out a few songs and put them on cassettes for some reference...With the actual music, I'm not interested in objectivity, quite the opposite. I want a solely and totally subjective experience...A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.”

Want Children Together Song Music Is Opposites Pops Stealing Pockets Rough Songwriting Not Interested Subjective Objectivity Pop Music Get Together Dave Cassettes

Author:Ian Anderson

“I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.”

Ifs Thinking Want Writing Kind Ideas Ends Problem Song Situation Concepts Roots Opposites Caring Songwriting Angle Not Caring

Author:Rivers Cuomo

“If there is one thing I will never have, it is an eating disorder. I won't have girls - even if it is just one or two who care - thinking that. Because it is a serious sickness, not something to plaster on the cover of a magazine. And I am the opposite. I want girls to love themselves. I want them to feel good about who they areThe thing is, I'm lucky because I was loved. But I have seen so many young women who can't feel good about themselves because they just don't have that love.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Two Care Young Girl One Thing Serious Lucky Eating Opposites Feel Good Magazines Just One Sickness Disorder Young Women Who Cares Eating Disorder Plasters I Want A Girl

Author:Kate Hudson

“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.”

Ifs Knows Want Wells Feelings Asks Too Much Cold Protect Opposites Know Me Accused Private Life Touch Me Inner Feelings Snobbish

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.”

Ifs Want Mind I Can Hands Asks Attention Middle Draws Opposites Come Up Ask Me Restaurants Shakes Jerk

Author:Macaulay Culkin

“When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something you might see on television and it doesn't explore the form. Sound is the other picture. When you show people a rough cut without the sound mix they are often really surprised. Sound creates a completely new world. With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the body language says the complete opposite. But I love great dialogue I think expositional dialogue is quite crass and not like real life.”

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