Quotes 61 till 80 of 117.
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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.
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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.
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Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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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.
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Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
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Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.
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People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
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People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
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Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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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.
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
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