#opposite

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#doctors #earth #encompass #engineers #food

For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#any #climbs #daily #down #drops

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#even #exact #exact opposite #just #keep

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#end #fact #fight #in fact #may

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

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. ↗

— Joe Viterelli

#exactly #films #funny #looking #opposite

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. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#book #business #end #everything #must

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#book #diaries #door #going #happens

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. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#anyone #enough #even #first #him

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#art #been #beyond #democracy #displacing