A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It is possible for one side simply to be wrong.
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself
It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.
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