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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.
Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.
Bacon is like the opposite of medicine. It's like, "Take that, Lipitor."
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.
I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.
Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way
Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.
The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.
People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
Because I feel like I'm the opposite of Jeongyeon, I would like to maybe switch qualities with her.
You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face.
Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long term.
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
I've had the opportunity to have different style teams with similar identities but opposite identities in some ways.
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.
None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite.
Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
I've probably been guilty of assuming people from by-gone generations were stuffy, two dimensional and a bit dull. But my trip on 'Who Do You Think You Are?' has proved the opposite to be true.
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.
Some people actually sleep better when the significant other is with them. For other couples, it's the opposite.
The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.
Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens
It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
I have that huge print from Pollock by the piano because the influence is reciprocal. He was into hearing music while he created, and I sometimes do the opposite. I'm influenced by everything from an ant to a dream.
On stage, my look should be the total opposite of my look offstage.
Although it may seem like it, life will never give you more than you can handle. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy; in fact, quite the opposite.
This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel
This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal.
This is church front pew, Amen, pulpit,
What my people need and the opposite of bullshit.
The opposite of faith is not doubt: It is certainty. It is madness. You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.
I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.
I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.
One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.
If I claim I'm the opposite of my characters, then it'll just sound awful. But I tend to write the sort of things I'd never say because I'm not a very forceful person.
I believe that the love of same-sex couples is every bit as valuable as that of opposite-sex couple.
Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.
Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.
I try to only eat animals that are vegan. I'm probably the opposite of a vegan.
I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
Is the mainstream becoming more queer? Or is it the opposite? That artists like me are mainstreaming queer music?
As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.
I want to play whoever is opposite 'Iron Man.' I want to romance Robert Downey Jr.
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.
