Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We [me and Eugene Levy] both try to play the reality of a moment and don't try to impose humor on something… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israel's security as absolute. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive? — Montgomery Clift Copy Share Image
See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching… — Swami Brahmananda Copy Share Image
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
[W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a… — John Christy Copy Share Image
Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger…Every… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but,… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that this is… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
“... the twin concepts of nihilism and the antihero have had it. What began with The Wild One and James "nobody understands… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
“I mean, contrary to popular belief, I'm actually not harboring a secret desire to grow up and become a bioterrorist.” — Elizabeth Norris Copy Share Image
Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do… — John Linder Copy Share Image
Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
When I became vegan I thought I would have to deprive myself of certain sweets that I loved so much, like caramel… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process… — Louis Daguerre Copy Share Image
To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
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