Quotes of: Opposite-direction Keyword

Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.

Suze Orman

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

Nelson Eddy

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Lewis Carroll

That all opposites—such as mass and energy, subject and object, life and death—are so much each other that they are perfectly inseparable, still strikes most of us as hard to believe. But this is only because we accept as real the boundary line b...

No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth

Ask for your wife's advice and then do the opposite.

Arabian

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

Helen Fisher

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Fran Lebowitz

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

Chad Kroeger

A truth is not necessary, because we negatively are not able to conceive the actual existence of the opposite thereof;but a truth is necessary when we positively are able to apprehend that the negation thereof includes an inevitable contradiction. It...

Life

Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Alice in Wonderland

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.

Mortimer Zuckerman

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To say that the humanities can be a path to truth itself is to challenge one of our most closely held beliefs. We live not only in a scientific world, but also in a scientistic one: a world that thinks that science - empirical, objective, quantifiabl...

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

I had no idea you could dance so well." Larissa linked her arm through Aiden's as they left the local pub. A few drunk men stumbled out behind them, singing offkey as they headed in the opposite direction. "You shouldn't be so surprised considering h...

Hunter Reborn

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

Small Is Beautiful: E. F. Schumacher, Appropriate Technology, Globalization, 1973 Oil Crisis, Neoclassical Economics, Simple Living, Buddhist Economics, Decentralization

I decided I would not go to court to have my mother declared incompetent, I would not fight. I put the car in drive and hit the gas. I felt as if I'd jumped off a sinking ship and was in a life raft with my little girl, my face turned away from the h...

Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir

I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my...

South of the Border, West of the Sun

When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture, in the midst of my family all trying to embrace me a...

The Unnamable

Mr. Lockery—my biology teacher—says if dinosaurs were magically brought forward in time today, we’d have nothing to worry about. Dogs, wolves, and bears would make short work of tyrannosaurs.” She nodded at Schrödinger, who was now padding a...

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Living with contradiction may be nothing new to humans, but acknowledging it, and accepting it are. Even the dictionary has trouble accepting a paradox, calling it 'two things that seem to be contradictory but may possibly be true.' But that's not a ...

Shellen Lubin

The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. In the years following Brown v. Board of E...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness