The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.
The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
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.
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.
When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.
New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.
Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.
[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than propriety. The president is expected to personify our betterness in an inspiring way, to express in what he does and is, not just what he says, a moral idealism which, in much of the public mind, is the very opposite of politics.
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.
Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.
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