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It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.
The Red Sox didn't handle negotiations with any kind of respect for me and my family, and the Rangers were the total opposite.
The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.
If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.
Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.
Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.
How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).
The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.
When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!
Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility.
So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.
In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.
A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites.
How did thie person-someone I'd imagined would be my polar opposite-always seem to find the things that would make me the happiest?
What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.
None of the systems we have created are producing the outcomes that were intended. They're actually producing exactly the opposite.
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.
"We must learn that the electric Universe of motion is divided into wave cycles which are equally divided into opposite expressions"
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?
Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.
The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.