Opposites Quotes - Page 3

• It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

  Abba Eban

  Leadership, Mean, Political

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Funny, Witty, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Technology, People

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.10, Basic Books

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• The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

  Niels Bohr

  Truth, Science, Profound

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• The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Causes

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

  Paul Tillich

  Faith, Doubt, Elements

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• While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

  Horace

  Running, Faults, Literature

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• Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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• In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Rose, Duality, Tigers

  Siegfried Sassoon (1947). “Collected Poems”, London : Faber and Faber

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• The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

  John Conyers

  Years, Pell Grants, Done

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• The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Evil, Principles, World

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

  David O. Selznick

  Ifs And, Married, Ifs

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• I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.

  Jon Lovitz

  Dream, Directors, Actors

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  To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

  Cary Grant

  Relationship, Money, Sex

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• I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Happiness, Gratitude

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• English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

  Michael Caine

  Texas, Speech

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• The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Philosophy, Humor

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• Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

  Honore de Balzac

  Literature, Way, Lovers

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

  Francoise Sagan

  Art, Believe, True Life

  "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.

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• People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

  Ann Druyan

  Giving Up, Passion, Thinking

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• I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is; it depends on the person and on the situation.

  Sting

  Flags, Monogamy, Situation

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• 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.

  Max Muller

  House, Church, Towers

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• The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

  Susan Sontag

  Truth, Lying, Balance

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• It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

  Douglas Wilson

  Character, Agriculture, Midwest

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