Opposite Quotes

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

We're probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.

What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister.

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.

I'm the opposite of jealous.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.

We were like bishops of opposite color.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.