Quotes About Opposite

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

To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.

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

Fate could twist you around and around if you weren't careful. Just when you thought you knew where you were headed, you'd wind up in the opposite direction, or flattened against a wall.

Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

The true opposite of depression is neither gaiety nor absence of pain, but vitality—the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

I've noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

I had spent my whole life trying not to be like my mother. I had taken the opposite path and hurried along it, all the time looking over my shoulder instead of ahead, so that I failed to see how the path curved back again in the same direction.

He would've liked his axe to hand, but hoping for a thing often brought on the opposite.

She wanted to believe that information brought clarity. Not for the first time in her life, however, she had the disconcerting notion that it was often the opposite. Information was a jar of flies, and when you unscrewed the lid, they went everywhere and good luck to you trying to round them all up again.

I told you had to be some kind of karmic opposite to the words I love you.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

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

The God who is human in his divinity is the precise opposite of an essence which in ill-willed fashion closes itself to all human thought and knowledge... As love, rather, God is thinkable, without a distinction capable of made between essence and existence. Love is essentially existing lovingly.

Y qué es la verdad? —Respondió José. —Unas veces lo contrario de la mentira; otra veces, lo contrario del silencio.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.

A great deal of the calmness of her insolence had left her. She had expected to have the whole night in which luxuriously to torment the lump opposite her. To torment him and to allure him.

One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.

Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite.