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Quotes About Opposite

I played a really good guy for two years on 'Homeland,' and I was champing at the bit to play a bad guy.
~ Diego Klattenhoff
My wife and I are connoisseurs of films but in opposite directions. She's a connoisseur of really good, classy foreign films. I'm a connoisseur of really bad, cheesy horror movies - so-bad-it's-good horror movies.
~ Mark Pellegrino
Orice gândire este deja un trib, opusul unui stat.
~ Gilles Deleuze
I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite.
~ Gillian Flynn
Safe at the opposite corner, Clancey was himself again — coolly disdainful despite dirt-smeared face, torn shirt ... Clancey's voice is like that of a furious goose, all honks and hisses.
~ Gore Vidal
That hiccup is best cured by drinking out of the opposite rime of a glass. You can imitate a glass with your hand. Liquid is not a necessary part of the cure.
~ Graham Greene
The ships all go the wrong way.
~ Graham Greene
Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.
~ Graham Joyce
reaction. A uniform did not signify safety. Usually, in his experience, it was quite the opposite.
~ Greg Keyes
People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I know now that it's the sweet, sweating smell of hope, which is opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love.
~ Gregory David Roberts
But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.
~ Gregory David Roberts
You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because its so hard to resist. Being listener to - really listened to - is the second-best thing in the world. What's the first best thing? Everybody knows that. The best thing in the world is power. ... And what about love? A lot of people say that love is the best thing in the world, not power. They're wrong. Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
~ Gregory David Roberts
But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.
~ Gregory David Roberts
But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn't wise.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Peace, Idriss once said, is perfect forgiveness, and is the opposite of fear.
~ Gregory David Roberts
of greed, which is the opposite of love.
~ Gregory David Roberts
hope, which is the opposite of hate;
~ Gregory David Roberts
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
~ Archibald MacLeish
There's nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god.
~ Richard Roundtree
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
~ Thomas Sowell
Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.
~ Jon Huntsman, Sr.
In the overall scheme of things, Tommy Dreamer and The Franchise are opposite characters.
~ Shane Douglas