Opposite Quotes

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
-Albert Einstein

"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
-Plato

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
-G. K. Chesterton

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
-George Eliot

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
-Eric Hoffer

"Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.The Artist's Way."
-Julia Cameron

"We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going to create 344,000 jobs each month starting in August, and things are going in the opposite direction."
-Lawrence Mishel

"He's a solid outfielder with a strong arm. He can hit to the opposite field and he has some power."
-Vin Abene

"The opposite of war isn't peace; it's creation."
-Jonathon Larson

"There's a lot of research that shows the exact opposite of what they are saying."
-Jennifer Topiel

"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

"That is the opposite of what we should have happen. Out in this part of the country our yields can be variable, it can be dry and then it can be very wet."
-Steve Wik

"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions."
-George Carlin

"If they get close to one another, material can transfer and the angular momentum from one system can be just the opposite from the other."
-Jan Hollis

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
-Ben Elton

"I got in a rut and couldn't get out of it. I tried, but it's a case of like being in the opposite of when you are in the zone and can't miss anything to not being able to catch anything."
-Todd Watkins

"Some teams don't practice hard and do great in games. We're the opposite."
-Dee Dee Horton

"[In 1999, he was cast opposite Bernadette Peters --] the queen of musical theater, ... Annie Get Your Gun."
-Tom Wopat

"I've had a lot of interviews with people. The first question was, `How happy are you now that she's gone?' And I'm like, it's the total opposite. I was really bummed. So now we've got to move on."
-Holly Robinson peete

"In the midst of the negative atmosphere of the industry, this crowd was 180 degrees the opposite. The attitudes are up. ... They're not losing their love affair with the automobile."
-Richard Genthe

"We're actors - we're the opposite of people."
-Tom Stoppard

"When I explained to him what happened, he was furious and confused. Bailey and Frank never, and I mean never, ride in the opposite direction. They always ride in the same direction."
-Shannon Bailey

"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
-Arthur C. Clarke

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
-Niels Bohr

"One of my favorite clothing patterns is camouflage. Because when you're in the woods it makes you blend in. But when you're not it does just the opposite. It's like "hey, there's an asshole.""
-Demetri Martin

"Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again."
-Richard Foreman

"Normally we sell beer at 4.25, now we are selling them for three dollars, we are doing the opposite of price gouging."
-Tammy Hoffman

"Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions."
-Pierre Charron