Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages,… — Judith Lynne Hanna Copy Share Image
You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Resentment is, in every stage of the passion, painful, but it is not disagreeable, unless in excess; pity is always painful, yet… — Alec Douglas-Home Copy Share Image
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If people of one''s own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless.… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
After a moment, he turned sharply to me. 'Are you quite all right?' 'Yes, perfectly. Why do you ask?' 'Because I have… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any… — George Mason Copy Share Image
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in… — Liang Qichao Copy Share Image
I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned… — Nicholas Metropolis Copy Share Image
The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Political populism always poses a great danger because it disorients people, creates excessive expectations or, on the contrary, prioritises objectives that are… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means… — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In fact global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth –… — Henrik Svensmark Copy Share Image
The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary,… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
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