Opposite Quotes

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.

We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable.

I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.