You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow… — Samuel Johnson 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 invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Nothing is impossible to us, except of course, that which is contrary to the laws of nature and the Universe. — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died — but no Forsyte had as… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously. — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations'… — Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands. — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope than an earthly heart. — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
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