#opposite

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#capacity #else #empathy #every #lost

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

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#breasts #having #large #makes #men

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#absolutely #always #amazed #because #i

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

I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made me want to hide - to run away and hide. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#actor #away #believe #celebrity #constantly

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#bigger #endowed #ferocity #fight #french

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ↗

— William Shenstone

#beauty #diminish #former #grandeur #increase

Action and reaction are equal and opposite. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#equal #opposite #reaction

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#always #basic #basic principle #be strong #cannot