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Quotes About Opposite

To me, 'Crash Love' is the most stripped-down record that we've made since the early Nineties, and I would say that 'I Hope You Suffer' is indicative of the overall tone of this record in being the opposite of that.
~ Davey Havok
In the U.S., the term 'general aviation' means its exact opposite, the way 'public school' does in England. An English public school is private and, on top of that, exclusive. Likewise, general-aviation airports in the U.S. are for everyone but the general public.
~ Tom Wolfe
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
I'm in this new Showtime series called 'Ray Donovan.' I play this guy Stu Feldman who runs Paramount Pictures, so the total opposite to this character.
~ Josh Pais
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
~ Joel Hodgson
I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.
~ Alex Kingston
Because I am mystical, with or without Fleetwood Mac or Lindsey, and that's just me. And it's important for me to be free to do that. I'm a Gemini: a Gemini has two very opposite personalities. I have the moving furniture, cleaning-up-the-room-quickly side and the cream-coloured chiffon personality.
~ Sean Egan
it would probably be more correct, and certainly more important, to see not capitalism but individualism as the opposite of socialism.
~ Sebastian Haffner
Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
~ Serj Tankian
The lesson here is an important one. Love has no opposite. No force in the universe rivals it.
~ Shane Hipps
Art and weaponry would seem to stand on opposite hills, and yet here they were, each nature complementing the other.
~ Sharon Lee
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
~ Sheila Jeffreys
Every time I see niqabs, I feel very uncomfortable because it's the opposite of my idea of opened society.
~ Jens Spahn
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true
~ John Fowles
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
~ Norman Podhoretz
The opposite of love is not to hate but to separate. If love and hate have something in common it is because, in both cases, their energy is that of bringing and holding together
~ John Berger
guess—You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well," said Morgan, "I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness." The
~ Mary Doria Russell
Whatever power of the earth rampages, we turn to it dazed but anonymous eyes; whatever the name of the catastrophe, it is never          the opposite of love.
~ Mary Oliver
whatever the name of the catastrophe, it is never the opposite of love.
~ Mary Oliver
Urine is a salty substance (though less so than the NASA Ames chili), and if you were to drink it in an effort to rehydrate yourself, it would have the opposite effect.
~ Mary Roach
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The influential 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica goes to the opposite extreme from the Encyclopédie: social history is buried within biography. So to read about the post-Roman world you must look up the entry on Attila the Hun.
~ Matt Ridley
I've been thinking about your Father a lot lately, and I've realized something. I married Gary specifically for the fact that he wasn't Curtis. If your Father has an opposite, it's Gary. I just need to decide if I want to spend the rest of my life with someone I married by default.
~ Matthew Norman