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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. -- Plato
Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction. -- Willem Dafoe
If anyone says, 'Let's have a girls' night out,' I will run in the opposite direction. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction. -- Rachel Nichols
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction. -- Sam Walton
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. -- Plato
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. -- Jack Kerouac
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. -- Marcelene Cox
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. -- E. F. Schumacher
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it. -- Dido Armstrong
You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?' -- Antonio Banderas
My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction. -- Tig Notaro
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop and think about that, we are recreating ourselves. -- Dwight Schultz
Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction. -- RJ Mitte
It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. -- Arthur Machen
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
Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game. -- Torrey Smith
Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean. -- Alex Shoumatoff
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline. -- Nate Silver
It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my teeth a second time, and make certain that there really are 100 postage stamps in the roll of stamps I bought yesterday. -- Rosemary Mahoney
Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull. -- Jim Rohn
so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction. -- Jodi Picoult
Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. -- Robert Breault
It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of Courage-to move in the opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein
We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction. -- Aneurin Bevan
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. -- Franz Kafka
In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. -- T. S. Eliot
The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. -- Milton Friedman
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. -- Joseph de Maistre
Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny? -- Sena Jeter Naslund
Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society. -- Richard Dawkins
Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction. -- Richard Saul Wurman
After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me. -- Elliott Erwitt
It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. -- C. S. Lewis
When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction! -- Peace Pilgrim
When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy. -- T. S. Eliot
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments -- Plato
She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick. -- Johanna Lindsey
Every giant leap for mankind resulting from a technological advance requires a commensurate step in the opposite direction - a counterweight to ground us in humanity. -- Alex Morritt
If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade. -- Mitch Hedberg
I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads. -- Charlotte Gainsbourg
The air currents must have steered me wrong, for I ended up far off course, and by "far off course" I mean "headed in the opposite direction entirely." -- Lia Habel
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else. -- Anita Roddick
At the moment we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. However you dress it up, it's pretty obvious who is being affected by the government's cuts. -- Jonathan Trigell
... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead... -- Jostein Gaarder
Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. -- Sam Walton
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. -- Alert Einstein
Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction." I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me" was Bones' mocking reply. -- Jeaniene Frost
The moment your dreams and your revelation take a special direction while your plans and actions take the opposite direction you commit yourself into a tight box for failure! -- Israelmore Ayivor
As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too. -- William Deresiewicz
You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there? -- Antonio Banderas
Switchfoot is a surfing term"¦ To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music. -- Jon Foreman
Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back. -- Victoria Chang
People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate. -- John Pfahl
The key to successful change is sensitivity towards that which is indigenous and, in the long run, diversity will always be more resilient than monoculture despite the current unsustainable trends in the opposite direction. -- Jonathan Watts

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