#opposite

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #opposite




Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.


Niels Bohr


#advancement #also #commentary #continue #exponential

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.


Niels Bohr


#false #great #great truth #opposite #plainly

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.


Michael Bolton


#between #break #experience #fortunately #friends

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.


Linda Evans


#father #first #him #i #john

When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.


Jon Brion


#becoming #colder #exact #exact opposite #find

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.


Mel Brooks


#alive #arms #around #death #flap

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.


William Jennings Bryant


#correct #false #may #opposite #profound

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.


Nicolaus Copernicus


#center #centuries #conception #consensus #earth

Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff was done on an aboriginal settlement on the south shore, opposite Cairns, which I believe was the site where the last person was eaten in Australia.


Brian Cox


#australia #australians #beautiful #believe #country

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.


Quentin Crisp


#decency #even #exhausting #maintain #more