#opposite

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite. ↗

— Alexandra Roach

#me #opposite #polar #scare #thrills

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#hypocrite #i #i think #lie #like

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#could #happen #i #i wonder #make

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

#belongs #desire #everything #his #human

Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided tree is of no value in the eyes of the Chinese. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#chinese #chosen #depends #eyes #generally

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

— Paul Gauguin

#improving #increase #just #key #looking

I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#crown #did #gentlemen #honourable #i

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#after #another #ceased #continued #further

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#form #imitation #namely #opposite #something

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#about #being #books #children #day