Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians. — Nick Goepper Copy Share Image
Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned; as, on… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely… — Konrad Zuse Copy Share Image
Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass;… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to… — Ernst T. Krebs Copy Share Image
Despite its protests to the contrary, modern Christianity has become willy-nilly the religion of the state and the economic status quo. Because… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israels security as absolute. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same… — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I've certainly never taken the care of myself that I should have. On the contrary. I've done a lot of late nights… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
This world is not the sum total of God's resources -- on the contrary, it is only the 'dream,' the probation, the… — Janet Erskine Stuart Copy Share Image
Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It… — E. W. Kenyon Copy Share Image
I think women have made progress in cinematography, contrary to women directors, who I think have regressed. There are many more women… — Maryse Alberti Copy Share Image
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