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You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.
— Cassandra Clare
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite. — Jean-Paul Sartre
always made me want to do just the opposite. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.
— Jason Blum
When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body - or vagina - has to do the opposite.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Cultivated people foster what is good in others,
not what is bad.
Petty people do the opposite. — Confucius
not what is bad.
Petty people do the opposite. — Confucius
Why do you think this great nation of ours loves the Royal Family?
Gun Law. If we didn't have it, you'd be asking the opposite question. — Julian Barnes
Gun Law. If we didn't have it, you'd be asking the opposite question. — Julian Barnes
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
— Brandon Stanton
Why do I spend every moment with you thinking about why I did not go in the opposite direction when I had the chance?
— Isabella Carter
I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.
— Kristen Stewart
Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.
— Emmanuel Lewis
Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible.
— Ann Coulter
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Unless he calls you names. Then do not love him, run in the opposite direction and throw a gerbil at his door.
— Coco J. Ginger
I do acupuncture. Because it really helps. It is the opposite of Botox. Botox blocks, and acupuncture moves.
— Monica Bellucci
Mothers can be so dense. Just act like you approve of what we're doing. We'll soon do the exact opposite, just to spite you.
— Cat Clarke
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.
— Hermann Hesse
It is widely said "Think globally, act locally" ... well the disaster happens when people do the opposite.
— Sameh Elsayed
People who act against others truly act in a backwards way, doing the opposite of what they would need to do to realize their goal.
— Patricia Evans
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
— Jose Bergamin
Crying is the opposite of scolding, because adults are hardly ever allowed to do it.
— Lemony Snicket
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
— Agatha Christie
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.
— Anselm Feurbah
Sometimes Opposite do Just More Than Attract ... They Catch fire and Burn the City Down ...
— Jay Crownover
If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
— Earl Nightingale
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
— Jessamyn West
Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
— Penn Jillette
Observe the masses and do the opposite
— James Caan
I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.
— Hal Riney
When the situations seem impossible, the best thing you can do is to think the opposite!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
To decide what the best use of it is, you must ask what use the Enemy wants to make of it, and then do the opposite.
— C.S. Lewis
I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.
— Mitt Romney
When a corpse tells you how to live, do the opposite.
— Isaac Marion
You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite of what you are doing now.
— Shannon L. Alder
So i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.
— Jodi Picoult
We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.
— Victoria Osteen
Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.
— Daisy Whitney
Do exactly the opposite of what the sheep are doing in order to become the Shepherd.
— Marshall Sylver
Please do not bring female visitors of the opposite sex into rooms.
— Rohinton Mistry
Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.
— Heather Mills
I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.
— Charlotte Gainsbourg
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
— Craig Newmark
I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.
— Marilyn Monroe
Watch what everyone else does
do the opposite. The majority is always wrong. — Earl Nightingale
do the opposite. The majority is always wrong. — Earl Nightingale
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
— Annie Baker
Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.
— Michael Gira
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
— Bill Cosby
Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite
— Miley Cyrus
People see things in the opposite way that I do. There are places that spirit, soul and emotion reach.
— Shari Arison
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
— Abba Eban
I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.
— Sky Ferreira
Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, I am what I do.
— C.S. Lewis
People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.
— Heraclitus
The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
She sighed. Ignatius, do you know what the opposite of love is?
Hate, I said.
Despair, Sister said. Despair is the opposite of love. — Charles D'Ambrosio
Hate, I said.
Despair, Sister said. Despair is the opposite of love. — Charles D'Ambrosio
It was like every man in my life knew exactly what I wanted them to do and then did the exact opposite, just to fuck with me. "I'm
— Donna Augustine
All that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;
— Tony Parsons
Things are really fucked up right now. We hardly see each other anymore and when we do, we go to sleep on opposite sides of the bed
— Lucinda Rosenfeld
Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative
— Ovid
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter.
— Dani Shapiro
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never believe what they say; they always lie. I have a saying: Whatever they say, do the opposite, and you'll never go wrong.
— Tom Upton
I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
— Charlie Kaufman
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way
— Jacques Barzun
what actually made Poles happy was listening to someone telling them what to do, and then doing the exact opposite.
— Dave Hutchinson
The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.
— Confucius
I've always been my own person. I don't do what people want me to do. Like, if you want me to do that, I'm going to do the complete opposite.
— Fetty Wap
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
— Craig Brown
'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.
— Cary Fukunaga
You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction ...
— Susan Cooper
[ ... ]while we all have the capacity to do harder things, we also have the desire to do exactly the opposite.
— Kelly McGonigal
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.
— Akshay Kumar
We see that the world seeks happiness instead of holiness. Therefore, we assume we should do the opposite. But we're wrong.
— Randy Alcorn
When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
— Will.i.am
It is easy to sit and it is easy not to think; you do the opposite: You walk and think!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I can always make up my mind better when there's a man around, because I know the thing to do is just the opposite to what he says.
— Sophie Kerr
Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.
— Umair Haque
Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all.
— Julian Barnes
Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.
— James Dashner
Only the best will do? In this age of unlimited variety, rather the opposite is true: 'good enough' is the new optimum
— Rolf Dobelli
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join.
— Elbert Hubbard
Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.
— Robert W. Bly
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
— Seth Godin
In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.
— Viktor Schauberger