Top 100 Opposite Of Quotes
#1. Evil is not the opposite of love; evil
is the absence of love." by Robert W. Chapman. Author of A Certain Fall.
Robert W. Chapman
#2. I'd never felt anything quite like it. For the first time in my life, everything was as it should be. Because the opposite of war ... is fucking.
Brian K. Vaughan
#3. When you write, everything is possible, even the very opposite of what you are.
Silvina Ocampo
#4. When you decide to live a totally surrendered life, that decision will be tested. Sometimes it will mean doing inconvenient, unpopular, costly, or seemingly impossible tasks. It will often mean doing the opposite of what you feel like doing.
Rick Warren
#5. I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
Charlie Kaufman
#6. What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
Joseph De Maistre
#7. The trappings of success bring the opposite of success in the ways most meaningful to people's lives.
Bryant McGill
#8. Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#9. The counterapproach to living in scarcity is not about abundance. In fact, I think abundance and scarcity are two sides of the same coin. The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough, or what I call Wholeheartedness.
Brene Brown
#10. Lie on your back and keep your eyes open. If they start to close, focus on keeping them open. This trick works because it is the opposite of "trying to fall asleep," which is impossible.
Deepak Chopra
#11. It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.
Ezra Levant
#12. With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.
John Cusack
#13. Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
Jose Bergamin
#14. Someone once said there is a fine line between love and hate, and that you cannot hate someone without having cared first. Think about it, Elise. That would mean the opposite of love is indifference, or the absence of caring.
Sandy Raven
#15. Just honest. To me, being 'politically incorrect' means the opposite of being political
which means to spin everything. That's all it's ever meant to me. It's never meant liberal or conservative. It means honest.
Bill Maher
#16. Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.
Peter Drucker
#17. This is the opposite of the free market.
Bill Maher
#18. I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.
Kristen Stewart
#19. It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot
#20. Photographs freed from the scientific bias can, and indeed usually do, have double meanings, implied meanings, unintended meanings, can hint and insinuate, and may even mean the opposite of what they apparently mean.
Peter C Bunnell
#21. Seriously. What was with British people? They didn't hug, and they sang their national anthem as if they ruled the world, which in fact was actually quite the opposite of true.
Rachel Van Dyken
#22. I do acupuncture. Because it really helps. It is the opposite of Botox. Botox blocks, and acupuncture moves.
Monica Bellucci
#23. It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.
Thurman Arnold
#24. I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.
Bruce Bennett
#25. I don't think anything is the opposite of love.
Anne Lamott
#26. The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough...
Brene Brown
#27. What makes you say the opposite of what every celling your body wants you to say?
Jandy Nelson
#28. Physically as well as psychologically, Dickinson was the opposite of Adams: tall and gaunt, with a somewhat ashen complexion and a deliberate demeanor that conveyed the confidence of his social standing in the Quaker elite and his legal training at the Inns of Court in London.
Joseph J. Ellis
#29. She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.
Susan Minot
#30. SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favourite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of one's God; Sadness of the opposite of belief [sic]; What if? Sadness; Sadness of God alone in heaven; Sadness of a God who would need people to pray to Him ...
Jonathan Safran Foer
#31. Most people believe in x, but the truth is the opposite of x.
Anonymous
#32. Sunny, whose demeanor was the exact opposite of her name;
Devon Monk
#33. What if the opposite of good wasn't bad? What if the opposite of good was real?
Claire Dederer
#34. Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.
Kanye West
#35. I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.
Brian K. Vaughan
#36. As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.
Kate Klise
#37. The sooner you decide that it is alright to believe the opposite of what the masses do, and that it is alright to trust the universe, and you choose to be happy rather than be right, the sooner you will be happy.
Malti Bhojwani
#38. The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe. You must admit though, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.
Bob Proctor
#39. The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!
Amish Tripathi
#40. An assault on an ideology is not merely different from a threat made to a person; it is the opposite of a threat made to a person. The whole end of liberal civilization is to substitute the criticism of ideas for assaults on people.
Adam Gopnik
#41. Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.
Jane Haddam
#42. The opposite of war is not peace but civilisation, and civilisation is purchased with violence and cold-blooded murder. With war.
Nadeem Aslam
#43. Don't be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn't do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father doing ... The moment I have a lesser sense of Him and a greater sense of the problem, I will live in reaction to the problem.
Bill Johnson
#44. This was one of the secret jokes about marriage. People turned out to be exactly the opposite of how they'd seemed at first; they then went on changing randomly, as though enacting a hypothesis of unceasing chaos.
Anjali Joseph
#45. A Course in Miracles says that only love is real: The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
Marianne Williamson
#46. I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.
Gore Vidal
#47. Sugar got her beauty from her mama, was Theo's first impression, but this woman did not strike him as having a heart of gold. She looked rich and mean, the opposite of his own mother, and he felt proud that Sugar had turned out the way she had despite that.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#48. I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
Barney Frank
#49. Moving on means getting back on track to align with the opposite of what turned you off.
Franklin Gillette
#50. We're actors - we're the opposite of people!
Tom Stoppard
#52. I love motor learning because it's very basic and primal. A lot of what I like to learn correlates with the opposite of what gets you laid. I can ride a unicycle and I can juggle. These are unimpressive things to know.
Demetri Martin
#53. Anne Lamott: The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.
Brene Brown
#54. What is the opposite of abundance? It's not scarcity. It's greed. Greed is the belief that there is not enough for everyone, so you'd better grab yours now. What is the opposite of love? It's not hate. It's fear. Fear is the belief that someone or something can hurt you.
Robert G. Allen
#55. I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
Sally Mann
#56. Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.
Kathleen Hanna
#57. It is complicated by exposure to politics. When a good dea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comps out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended." 86
Tom Robbins
#58. The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human.
Erik Naggum
#59. Love is the opposite of [lust]: respecting the other as an end unto himself or herself. When you love someone as an end unto himself, then there is no feeling of hurt; you become enriched through it. Love makes everybody rich.
Osho
#60. Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.
Jane McGonigal
#61. A gentle boy with a gentle soul, but every soul contains its own opposite, and the opposite of gentleness was ruthlessness - the beautiful wreckage of mercy.
Cassandra Clare
#62. This is what birds see. Only they're free and safe. The very opposite of me.
Suzanne Collins
#63. The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the devil's] own image
Hans Nielsen Hauge
#64. The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.
Niels Bohr
#65. Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
Daley Thompson
#66. Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.' Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new information leads to an increase in ignorance, it is the opposite of learning, the death of wisdom.
Will Storr
#67. She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.
Amy Bloom
#68. Discouragement is the opposite of faith. It is Satan's device to thwart the work of God in your life.
Billy Graham
#69. I did not believe in god, but I was beginning to believe in miracles, miracles and whatever is the opposite of miracles, terrible wonders. Yes, this life is a whirlwind, and what can guide us through it? Not our eyes, not our ears, not our brain. What difference does it make what we believe?
David Gordon
#71. The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#72. Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
Agatha Christie
#73. I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.
Cyndi Lee
#74. Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.
Adam Mansbach
#75. I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.
Chuck Palahniuk
#76. Collapse, spread, merging, union: these things sound like the opposite of loneliness, and yet intimacy requires a solid sense of self to be successful and satisfying.
Olivia Laing
#77. A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.
Jason Statham
#78. People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
Ann Druyan
#79. People let their frustrations out on me. I love Kanye West. They say the opposite of that. But I'm not going to say that. I'm only going to say what I'm want to put into the universe.
Kanye West
#80. Ideology is the opposite of philosophy. Philosophy is the curiosity which guides its inquiry according to universal principles. Ideology is a prior prejudice that seeks out an echo-chamber of reaffirming information.
Stefan Molyneux
#81. When you trust in yourself, you are trusting in the same wisdom that created you. When you fail to trust in yourself, when you fail to love yourself, you are denying your own Divinity, and therefore attracting the opposite of what The Source is.
Wayne Dyer
#83. The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
Elie Wiesel
#84. Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.
Umberto Eco
#85. The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.
Jean Baudrillard
#86. Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.
Michael Scott
#87. I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
Joe Strummer
#88. Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith
Paul Tillich
#89. In terms of game theory, the opposite of a failed tactic is not necessarily success.
Robert Ferrigno
#90. The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
Os Guinness
#91. As Anthony Thiselton puts it, The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.
Alexander Strauch
#92. Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age
Aaron Sorkin
#94. If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,
Ron Suskind
#95. Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable.
Mindy Greenstein
#96. I don't want them to focus on my outlaw tendencies. If they knew what a long, messy history I have of doing the opposite of what I'm told, things could get ugly.
Ann Aguirre
#98. It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude!
Richard Rohr
#99. They say sociopaths are dangerous because they know the subtleties of social interaction better than most people and they use this knowledge to use and exploit people. Well, it seems to me people with Asperger's are the opposite of sociopaths.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#100. The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.
Marianne Williamson
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