I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I rather like the role.
Opposite Quotes
I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a genius I feel quite sure that joy and happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet, when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite; joy and happiness is just around the corner.
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking about what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the numbers of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. […]
When you are young, women tell you, “Look but do not touch.” As you get older you hear just the opposite.
If con is the opposite of pro, is congress the opposite of progress?
Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.