#opposite

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

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

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing. ↗

— Emmanuel Lewis

#crazy #doing #how #i #i do

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

When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite. ↗

— Jim Loehr

#exercise #fact #in fact #just #opposite

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#been #corporate #defined #enslaved #even

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#de niro #director #dream #great #hoffman

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#better #his #ideas #life #lived

I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#angry #day #forget #goes #great

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#great #great truth #opposite #truth #truth is