#opposite

Two people of similar nature can never get along, it takes two opposites to harmonize. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#friendly #getting-along #nature #opposites #people

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing. ↗

— Konstantin Josef Jireček

#paradox #paradox

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. ↗

— James Broughton

#create #desire #destroy #even #fearing

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. ↗

— Alton Brown

#asking #attract #cook #cooking #did

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#effect #ever #help #isolating #lives

The problem we've got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#each #goals #got #now #opposite

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. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#after #been #beginning #believed #blonde

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#accent #because #cage #clash #class

That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#brought #certainly #fact #hand #happening

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. ↗

— George Eliot

#captivated #case #common #enough #his