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Bonnie is so 'calm,' you see. The opposite of me. She speaks in one of those soft . . . low . . . melodious voices that make you want to punch a wall. — Liane Moriarty

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. — May Sarton

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. — Pablo Picasso

I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one. — Johnny Depp

Isn't it strange how one child can be so lucky, when not a stone's throw away another child's life has taken quite the opposite direction? — Helen Laycock

Things opposite unite and appear to disappear. The potential for both remains. That is one of the greatest principles of the causes of things. — Gene Wolfe

The opposite of creativity is compliance to external imposition, having for one reason or another to bend to the will of another. — Keith Oatley

The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true. — Warren G. Harding

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. — Franz Kafka

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith — Paul Tillich

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal. — Peter Drucker

To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite. — Vincent Van Gogh

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite. — Michael Bloomberg

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. — George Santayana

People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite. — Nigel Barker

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do. — Agatha Christie

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy. — T. S. Eliot

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful. — Horace

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. A truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided. — Hermann Hesse

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true. — Edmund Snow Carpenter

One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it's the opposite. — Brownell Landrum

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. — Soren Kierkegaard

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme. — Horace

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people. — Marc Almond

Grace is the very opposite of merit ... Grace is not only undeserved favor, but it is favor, shown to the one who has deserved the very opposite. — Henry Allen Ironside

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite. — Deb Caletti

But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise. — Gregory David Roberts

How could I want one thing so much and its exact opposite at the same time? — Kate Mildenhall

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite. — Thomas Bernhard

To return to the source of things, one has to travel in the opposite direction. — Rene Daumal

Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true. — Rudolf Hess

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right. — Oliver Goldsmith

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite. — Joseph Fiennes

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead. — Tony Judt

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. — Jean-Paul Sartre

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite. — Sophocles

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time. — Jay Griffiths

Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels. — Geoff Dyer

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

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite. — Richard Thaler

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film. — Jaco Van Dormael

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. — Horace

Now Lucy sighed on his behalf. Communication must be difficult when your ass whittled the opposite sex's vocabulary down to one word. — Tessa Bailey

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first. — Terry Pratchett

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind. — Sun Tzu

There it was one of those moments that is the opposite of blindness. — Anne Carson

Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected. — Jim Jarmusch

The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life. — Joseph Skinner

She didn't want to be one of those girls who said the exact opposite of what she meant, but still - it would have been nice to see Easy try. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite. — Nelson Eddy

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite. — Skeet Ulrich

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. — Marcelene Cox

I need to remember that there's more than one way people show love. And even though his way and my way are completely opposite, it's still love. — Colleen Hoover

What had John Keats said about Negative Capability - holding two opposite ideas in one's mind at the same time without straining to reconcile them? — Dan Simmons

The Difference between Writers and Editors.
Writers are creative using one end of a pencil.
Editors are more adept using the opposite end. — Roy A. Higgins

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite. — Frank Herbert

I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him. — Deepika Padukone

Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. — Ernestine Rose

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other? — Lewis H. Lapham

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

Writers of either gender ought to be able to do the opposite sex-that's one basic test of competence, after all. — Julian Barnes

To know one thing, you must know the opposite. — Henry Moore

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction. — Sam Walton