#opposite

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#essential #experience #get #opposite #person

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

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. ↗

— William James

#clear #fully #grasp #import #never

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#any #form #genre #i #i always

There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway. ↗

— Taylor Kitsch

#even #experience #genuine #how #mean

Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#any #bush #country #dare #direction

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#art #believe #close #course #exactly

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ↗

— George Santayana

#almost #balance #every #less #opposite

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#effect #fault #gives #hardly #him