Quotes of: Opposite-direction Keyword

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one adva...

Henry B. Eyring

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

When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.

James Balog

I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.

Tyler Perry

When presented with a member of the opposite sex, some of us get numbers and some of us throw up.

Anatomy of a Boyfriend

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Jesus-Shock

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

Killosophy

A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God’s sake, don’t be boring !

Rumpelstein

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

A Room of One's Own

But sex...that was the opposite of control. There were emotions, and attraction, and that pesky other person that just to be involved. Not my idea of fun.

Losing It

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

A Lion Among Men

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

The Six Rules of Maybe

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Sense and Sensibility

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Orthodoxy

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

Pensées

When you run out of hope, everything is backwards. Your heart wants the opposite of what it needs.

The Warden and the Wolf King

The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.

Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite

Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it’s struggle, it’s ugly, it’s horrific, it’s dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.

Wreckage

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.

Helen Wills Moody

I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever necessary to destroy him, even if it meant damaging the country in the process.

Stephen Stills