Opposites Quotes - Page 33

• I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges, and opposite electric charges cling to each other.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Science, Thinking, Doubt

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• One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the stone wall opposite me, and not more than three or four yards distant, suddenly fell down. Amid the general stillness and immobility about me the effect was quite startling. ... It was the sudden summing up of half a century or more of atomic changes in the material of the wall. A grain or two of sand yielded to the pressure of long years, and gravity did the rest.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Country, Wall

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• When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.

  Tim Allen

  Smart, Very Smart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?

  Antonio Banderas

  Years, Guy, Going Out

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• Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

  Livy

  Together, Toil, Connections

  Livy (1823). “The History of Rome”, p.417

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• Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.

  Willard Gaylin

  Feel Good, Feelings, Emotion

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

  Graham Swift

  Upbringing

  "How did I end up becoming a novelist?" by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Work is the opposite of creativity.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Creativity

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• What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Real, School, Thinking

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• To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

  Valerie Solanas

  Men, Males, Female

  Valerie Solanas (1971). “SCUM manifesto”

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• Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

  Sandra Bullock

  Giving, Actors, Given

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• I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

  Cameron Diaz

  Thinking, Play, People

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• The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Brutality, Next, Hours

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• In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Character, Suffering And Death, Tragedy

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• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Communication, Kids, Parent

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• My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

  Duane Chapman

  Father, Kids, Today

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

  David Douglass

  Data, Atmosphere, Earth

  Letter to the Wall Street Journal, www.desmogblog.com.

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• Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

  Joyce DeWitt

  Desire, Theatre, Hollywood

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• To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.

  Cam Gigandet

  Growing Up, People, Trying

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• 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.

  Jay Griffiths

  Measurement, Facts, Arguing

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

  Brian May

  Thinking, People, Way

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• Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite. For example, there are circumstances when it is advisable to introduce, elaborate and defend ad hoc hypotheses, or hypotheses which contradict well-established and generally accepted experimental results, or hypotheses whose content is smaller than the content of the existing and empirically adequate alternative, or self-inconsistent hypotheses, and so on.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Self, Adequate

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Science, Different, Levels

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation.

  Rodney Mullen

  Sports, Team, Perfect

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• Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

  Alexander Sutherland Neill

  Love, Hate, Indifference

  Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”

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