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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite.
In all aspects of our society we overcomplicate things under the guise of making things easier and simpler, when in fact we are doing the opposite.
When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.
What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it.
I was sick of being articulate and loud and charming. I didn't want to play that guy anymore. I wanted to play the absolute opposite of that.
There is a huge misconception that if you do something like hot yoga, you'll burn more calories, and the opposite is true. You want to heat your body from the inside out, not the outside in.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You never know what it’s going to look like on the other side, but you’ll see it eventually if you keep your eyes open.
Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.
The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.
There's so much PC police. There's so much, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' We're the exact opposite.
Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.
True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.
How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
Every administration has this idea to talk tough to Israel and make nice to the Arabs and the Palestinians, and that's the way to bring about peace. It's counter-productive - it's actually the opposite.
"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"
Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.
I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.
How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?
A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.
Well, it definitely comes as a challenge to act as enemies onscreen when you bond with the opposite person very well off-screen.
My dad is not really a relaxed guy. He's nervous. He wants to do everything. But I am completely opposite to him. I am calm.
People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.
It's funny 'cos I think a lot about kids who grow up with their parents being really important members of their fields, and they just go the opposite way.
I've had good results on clay during my junior years and I enjoy playing on clay to the opposite of what many media can say.
True urgent leadership doesn't drain people. It does the opposite. It energizes them. It makes them feel excited.
A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
Women have been taught that they are not powerful; they've been given an opposite description, that they are weak. The word "effeminate" implies weakness.
Your appearance shouldn't define who you are, and that's what I like, the contrast between people looking like the opposite of what they truly are deep inside.
Certainly for some time, people used to think of my solo career as somehow a side project to Porcupine Tree. No. If anything, the opposite would now have to be the case.
I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.
I was surrounded by a bunch of friends who made music, and at the time, I thought they were good. They used to tell me I was really bad, but it ended being up the opposite.
Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.
When I entered the film industry, I hadn't dreamt that I would work in so many movies and opposite so many reigning and future heroes.
And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.
She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.
It's actually kind of a skill to act cold - to have the mannerisms of being cold when it's the complete opposite of how you behave when you're hot.
There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.
Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.
I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.
When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
I would never buy skin care from a makeup brand - full transparency. It feels like the opposite of makeup.
I don't wanna say I'm anti-military as my mission is the exact opposite and I'm a unifying force. I'm there to show everybody that we're all the exact same.
I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.
What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.
I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother's had just the opposite.
The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.
Character-wise, I try to always switch it up. Whatever I'm doing now, I try to do the complete opposite next.
I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.
