If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

- Anselm Feuerbach

We were like bishops of opposite color.

- Boris Spassky

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

- Bill Griffith

The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.

- Brandon Stanton

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

- Bob Geldof

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

- Brene Brown

I've seen people who come to work say, 'No, I'm doing it this way, and that's that.' I'm the opposite - I like being out of my element; it's where I like to live.

- Bill Hader

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

- Bill Cosby

I've enjoyed the opposite sex a lot. Always have. Always will.

- Betty White

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

- Bertrand Russell

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

- Alanis Morissette

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

- Agnieszka Radwanska

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

- Alexandra Roach

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

- Annie Baker

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

- Andrew Dominik

Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

- Arthur Keith

The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

- Ashley Madekwe

I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.

- Aaron Paul

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

I think a common misperception about attuning and tending to a child's needs so constantly is that they don't grow in their independence, but I think that the opposite is true.

- Alanis Morissette