Quotes About Opposite

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love.

When you think and act opposite to love, you find yourself powerless and life becomes a frightening nightmare.

Love is the opposite of good sense.

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Almost all people answer that the opposite of fragile is robust, resilient, solid, or something of the sort. But the resilient, robust (and company) items that neither break nor improve, so you would not need to write anything on them--have you ever seen a package with robust in thick green letters stamped on it? Logically, the exact opposite of a fragile parcel would be a package on which one has written please mishandle or please handle carelessly.

this approach is exactly backward:

is the exact contrary of knowledge; one should learn to avoid using terms made for knowledge to describe its opposite.

Contrary to what people might expect, I am not recommending that

But since abundance would bring the opposite effect

We are the one species that can formulate a vision of what values are worth pursuing—and then pursue the opposite.

and yet the intimation of a view of her character opposite to his own, gave instantaneous distinctness to a thousand dim suspicions, which now grinned at him like so many demons.

She sighed. Ignatius, do you know what the opposite of love is? Hate, I said. Despair, Sister said. Despair is the opposite of love.

In some ways, the VaR debacle is the opposite of the Schlitz example in Chapter 5. Schlitz was operating with a known probability distribution

Wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it.

I don't understand why the Euro-sceptics think monetary union will lead to a federal Europe. It seems to me that the opposite is the case.

Ä°nsan "bilimleri" fizik bilimlerinden sadece farkl? deÄŸil, birçok bak?mdan onlar?n z?dd?d?r. DoÄŸa ne yalan ne doÄŸru söyler, oysa insanlar al??kanl?klar? üzere ikisini de yapar.

She is the laugh; I am the laughter.

to counter negativity in the mind is a classical Buddhist teaching called "replacing with the opposite";

I now know pain is part of any journey- that this is the opposite of grief, but grief the only way I know to describe waiting and waiting without knowing, hoping one day joy will arrive.

a calm that would undo most anyone who thought noise worse than its opposite

There is a flip side to every concept which has ever been coined.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it...