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.
I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.
For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Maybe it’s something to do with the movements: the Cat and then the Cow, the twist to the left and then to the right, the reaching up, and then bending to the ground, the constant training of the body to move one way, and then to move in the opposi...
Here is a universal law: that when it comes to negative and positive, you will always thrive more powerfully in the positive if you have first been immersed in, and have heroically overcome, the polar opposite negative of that thing. To abide in the ...
I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.
The universe maintained a balance, moving first one way and then the other in a forever equalizing of opposites.
Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.
A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
