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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.
— Adam Nicolson
While fun is desirable, regret is quite the opposite.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
— Joyce DeWitt
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
To mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Masquerading in the attire of the opposite sex was a criminal offense, except on Halloween.
— Ann Bausum
I was looking for the opposite, really -something that might put an end to being in love
— Cassandra Clare
The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media, I said, meaninglessly.
— Ben Lerner
We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.
— Charles Sturt
I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness.
— Marina Keegan
Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.
— Napoleon Hill
The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.
— Anne Lamott
An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Whatever the opposite of a plan is, that's what I've got.
— Jonathan Tropper
Evil is not the opposite of love; evilis the absence of love." by Robert W. Chapman. Author of A Certain Fall. — Robert W. Chapman
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
— William Hazlitt
Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
— Aaron Sorkin
As Anthony Thiselton puts it, The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.
— Alexander Strauch
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
— Philip Yancey
The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.
— Alanis Morissette
We are always seeking our opposite, whether we know it or not. When we discover what that is we can dissolve our arrogance.
— Michio Kushi
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
— Honore De Balzac
Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life.
— Haruki Murakami
The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful
— Gwyneth Lewis
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
— Marina Keegan
The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.
— Patrick Dixon
The opposite of compromise is character.
— Frederick Douglass
Hat our contempt often hurls from us,We wish it our again; the present pleasure,
By revolution lowering,does become
The opposite of itself.. — William Shakespeare
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
— William James
The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.
— Romare Bearden
I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.
— Chuck Palahniuk
If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness.
— Mary Doria Russell
In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.
— Emily Thorne
I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.
— Lupe Fiasco
When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.
— Craig Groeschel
Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.
— Karen Marie Moning
And I think, What's the opposite of suffocation?
— Bill Konigsberg
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power
— C.S. Lewis
When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.
— Richard Thaler
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
— Niels Bohr
Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
— Anne Sexton
Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.
— Will Schwalbe
Pink Floyd was music for rich college kids, and we were the exact f**king opposite of that.
— Ozzy Osbourne
We were like bishops of opposite color.
— Boris Spassky
Power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.
— Eben Pagan
Loss creates a greater overall surface area within a person. You expand as a result of it. Though it may very well feel like the opposite.
— Augusten Burroughs
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
— Orlando Bloom
Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!
— Natalia Kills
Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.
— John Irving
I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
— Bradford Cox
Paganism declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite. Of
— G.K. Chesterton
Caring was all about surrender, in the end. The opposite of control. The difference between strangling someone and embracing them.
— Cara McKenna
Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.
— Kate Flannery
It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.
— Chelsea Handler
Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.
— Anthony Lawlor
Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
— Henry Fielding
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
— Karl Lagerfeld
You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Those that choose to walk in the light will experience light.Those that choose the opposite path create for themselves the opposite experience. — Molly Friedenfeld
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— Steve Hagen
Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.
— Hank Green
Sometimes Opposites Attract, and find out they're not as opposite as they thought ...
— Allie Brennan
Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption?
— Peter Kreeft
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
— Graham Swift
Prosperity is the opposite of greedy.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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