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Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.' — William J. Clinton

Rather than incorporating study into life, I've done the opposite. I've turned life into study. Where events take me? That's what I dive in to learn. — Silver RavenWolf

Cultivated people foster what is good in others,
not what is bad.
Petty people do the opposite. — Confucius

Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey — Amunhotep El Bey

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence. — Pierre Soulages

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves. — Carl Jung

It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Worry is the opposite of power. — Bryant McGill

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

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it — Eric Hoffer

He believes in the unity of the opposites. And that is how life is. — Osho

The great battle (jihad) of life is the conflict of opposites. — Tim

Ginny who lived her life with hair in the breeze, Stillman who lived his with it under his hat. And he loved her so much the worse for it. — Josh Weil

Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit. — Napoleon Hill

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

If opposites attract why is the church trying so hard to mirror the world? — Lakesha Ruise

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

Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE — Tristan Tzara

I like hard movies; I like ones that are basically the opposite of a date movie. — John Waters

Sometimes you have to go 'yippee-ki-yay' on a person who deserves it. — Naima Simone

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

Love has no opposite.

Hate, fear, are not love's opposites;
they are its denial. — Ivan M. Granger

Someone once described the information business as exactly the opposite of sex. When it's good, it's still lousy. — Michael Bloomberg

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. — Philip Yancey

The journey towards oneness emphasizes the opposites and we are caught in their conflict. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite. — Henry David Thoreau

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious. — G.K. Chesterton

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

As happy as I am off the floor, on the floor I am the opposite. I don't take any crap. — Gilbert Arenas

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

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? — George Carlin

The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. — Milton Friedman

What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex? — Norman Mailer

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. — Albert Camus

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite. — Teresa Of Avila

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next. — Samuel R. Delany

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one — Rumi

That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday. — Eugene Ormandy

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true. — Niels Bohr

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning. — Herbert Marcuse

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. — Joseph De Maistre

life seems to be a collision of opposites. — Richard Rohr

Whatever you decide is your motivation in the scene, the opposite of that is also true and should be in it. — Michael Shurtleff

Love and hate are not opposites; they are siblings birthed by obsession. — Steve Maraboli

The pair of opposites do not effect a yogi - neither praise nor insult. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The opposite of love is fear, not hate. — Yoko Ono

Trying to impress others does - usually in quite the opposite way. — Malcolm Forbes

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. — Plato

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true? — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways. — Shannon A. Thompson

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself. — RuPaul

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear. — Chuck Palahniuk

Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite. — Eben Pagan

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb. — Arundhati Roy

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

I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud. — David Beckham

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible. — Francoise Sagan

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

Juliette felt a wash of fear and relief, those two opposites twisting together like staircase and rail. — Hugh Howey

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

[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

The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites. — Diana Lanham

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

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

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem. — Anne Sexton

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

We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites. — Frederick Lenz

Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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 opposite of compromise is character. — Frederick Douglass

Prosperity is the opposite of greedy. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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

There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending. — Henning Mankell

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

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

PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax. — David Edward Kirk

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

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. Death is the opposite of birth. — Eckhart Tolle

I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote. — Joe Strummer

Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear. — Jack Canfield

Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground. — Ezra Koenig

I don't think anything is the opposite of love. — Anne Lamott

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. — Tim Ferriss

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

Sometimes Opposites Attract, and find out they're not as opposite as they thought ... — Allie Brennan

They were the right counterbalance to one another. — Kelly Moran

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

We're convinced we need money to have friends and partners, but actually I've found the opposite to be true. — Mark Boyle

Opposites generally create intense chemistry. There are more chances of fireworks when different people are together than similar personalities. — Sonam Kapoor

The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. — Theodore J. Forstmann

If someone else of the opposite sex joins either of you in your favorite recreational activities, you are at risk of falling in love with that person. — Willard F. Harley

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite. — Lester Levenson

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. — Martin Luther King Jr.