650 Opposite Quotes for You to Enjoy

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa. Lydia Leonard

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If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily. Lydia Millet

Love Way Kind Find Go Opposite To Love Popular

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that. Lydia Millet

Marriage Culture About Ideal Like Around Opposite Romantic Really Trappings

Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic. M. J. Hyland

Me Director Age Lawyer Journalist Before Seven TV City Spine Magazine Both Cadet Also Editor Opposite Years Brain Moved Literary After Then Worked Film Film And TV Assistant

I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want. Macaulay Culkin

I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am. Maiara Walsh

Love Characters Am Opposite Who Playing

The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. Maimonides

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I was always one step behind Marilyn. She made all the right moves, hung out with the right people who could advance her career. I was just the opposite. I was always breaking dates with moguls and running off with guys younger than myself. Mamie Van Doren

Myself People Made Right People Hung Out Running Guys Dates Could Advance Step She Always Opposite Off Than Behind Just Moves Breaking Younger Who Her Right Career Marilyn

My father's generation of Saudi men are more liberal than the men of my generation. But with women, it's the opposite. Manal al-Sharif

Generation Women Father Men Liberal My Generation More Opposite Than Saudi

My entire philosophy of teaching is based on the notion that when an artist finds a certain process really effortless, that's probably what he or she should choose to do. So often, students take the opposite tack; they have no use for the skills that come easily to them. Marilyn Minter

Philosophy Easily Finds Entire Take Students He He Or She Come She Opposite Effortless Artist Often Process Them Really Certain Should Skills Use Notion Choose Teaching Based

The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. Marilynne Robinson

Truth Saying Knowledge Truth Is Myth Poetry Simply Idea Like Opposite

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult. Mark McKinnon

Great Challenges Matter Big Difficult Assumed Meet Presidents Those About Never Dealt How Opposite Were Hands Just Even Chair

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. Mark Rothko

Living Intimate Scale Distortion Would Would-Be Rather Since Pictures Institutional Opposite Been Normal Than Intense Meaning Decorative Painted

Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them. Mark Z. Danielewski

Speak Value Fall Negatively Relationships Way Those About Potentially Could Weird Weird Way Know Opposite Closest Them Even Away

The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity. Marshall Herskovitz

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I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite. Martin Jacques

Leader Admired Blair Clearly She Because Opposite Huge Offered Thatcher Substance While Dismal Much Margaret Margaret Thatcher

When I started out, I was very vociferously against theatre or what I saw theatre as being, so I tried to make my plays the opposite of that - something a bit more cinematic. I'm a film kid, so I'll never have the same love of theatre as I do of movies. It's just the way I was brought up. Martin McDonagh

Love Theatre Cinematic Saw Way Bit Kid Out Tried Brought Something More Never Make Opposite Up Very Same Just Being Against Movies Film Started Plays

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight. Martin Van Creveld

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that. Mat Kearney

In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex. Matisyahu

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When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex, but I have since met lads from my school who said I just seemed unapproachable. Maxine Peake

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel. Megan Fox

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People compare me to Angelina Jolie, and she's so serious and stoic. I'm the opposite. Megan Fox

Me People Angelina Jolie She Opposite Stoic Serious Compare

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island. Meriwether Lewis

Morning Rain Yesterday Further About Ten Small Had Another Island Islands Passing Opposite Continue Piper Stopped After Which Landing Then Miles Last Night Two Last Night

The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs. Michael Arrington

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