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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

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity. — Wayne Dyer

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

...not positive about the definition of existentialism but it seems like the opposite of nihilism in which case I suppose I may be. — Autumn

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

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

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; evil
is 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

Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is. — Rob Liano

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age — Aaron Sorkin

How did thie person-someone I'd imagined would be my polar opposite-always seem to find the things that would make me the happiest? — Kiera Cass

Psychologically, when you've been overweight you want to achieve the polar opposite. — Craig David

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

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth. — Rush Limbaugh

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

Whatever power of the earth rampages, we turn to it dazed but anonymous eyes; whatever the name of the catastrophe, it is never the opposite of love. — Mary Oliver

In capitalism, man exploits man. In socialism, it's exactly the opposite. — Ben Tucker

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 excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. — Plato

The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful — Gwyneth Lewis

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

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you. — Kami Garcia

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite. — Confucius

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

There aren't a lot of movie star males around my age that I can play opposite. — Teresa Palmer

The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum. — Pearl Zhu

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult. — Kurt Tucholsky

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

There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand. — Jamie Dornan

Death is the opposite of birth. It is a change of state." He — Ayse Hafiza

In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall. — Emily Thorne

I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me. — Tom Stoppard

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

In the end, a gun is an instrument to make someone surrender to your will or die, and music is exactly the opposite - it's seductive and invitational. — Pedro Reyes

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

I am telling you that if things can change for the worse, the opposite is also true. But only if you open yourself to the possibilities. — Ruth Reichl

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

You know you're in love when the most interesting conversation you have with the opposite gender is about the one you claim to be in love with. — Andrew King

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

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along. — Susan Orlean

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs. — Jerry Brown

The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love — Henry Cloud

The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite. — Ashley Madekwe

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

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues. — Henry Fielding

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

I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it. — Courtney Barnett

What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife. — Heraclitus

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

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things. — Epictetus

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

[W]hen we come up with any concept at all, we simultaneously create one or more opposite concepts. — 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

How is it possible to have an emotion and its opposite at the same time? — Nicola Yoon

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. — Sigmund Freud