Opposite Quotes

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.

But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.

However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make as many mistakes as someone who does the opposite.

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.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.