Opposite Quotes - page 3

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism. (John Ralston Saul)
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. View quote
Marcelene Cox
The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy. View quote
Mehmet Oz
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. View quote
Ulrich Beck
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done. View quote
Jose Bergamin
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy. View quote
Junot Diaz
Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to. View quote
Esther Duflo
He was sure there must be some catch. Every principle here had an opposite, and both were wrong. View quote
Lester del Rey
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. View quote
May Sarton
Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool. View quote
Arthur Keith
I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. (Christopher Eccleston)
Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace. View quote
Douglas J. Feith
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. View quote
Dwight Schultz
I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with. View quote
Fred Ward
The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. View quote
Kenny Loggins
Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim
The opposite of nature is impossible. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to cultivate, and produces on the contrary strict necessity in the decisions of the will, the opposite being impossible. Such a will can henceforth be relied on with confidence and certainty. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience. View quote
John Updike
This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity. View quote
Rollo May
Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness. (Rollo May)
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
The opposite of love is fear, not hate. View quote
Yoko Ono
I originally welcomed the mobile phone as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
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. View quote
Marina Warner