Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.
The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.
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.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
I consider the indiscriminate propagation of self-help to be morally unacceptable... self-help is the opposite of autonomous or vernacular life.
The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.
Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
I want to play whoever is opposite 'Iron Man.' I want to romance Robert Downey Jr.
I really like lads and grew up with two brothers and all of their mates. I'm also close to several actors that I've played opposite.
We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset.
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the work.
The quickest way to detect a cult is to sniff for doublethink. The cult seeks control over its membership not by providing a coherent theological system but by providing the opposite: an unstable theology infinitely malleable to the needs of the cult's top echelon and uninterpretable at all times to anyone below that level.
I don't think of myself as a maverick at all. Quite the opposite - I really think of myself as quite conventional but dispersed over unusual territory.
Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.
The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.