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.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.
I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.
The human heart is like the reflection on the water's surface. The mouth says things opposite to what the heart really feels.
In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
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.
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
