I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!'… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
There's a myth that in Arab countries, they all like Palestinians. They don't. On the contrary. — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to… — Columba Marmion Copy Share Image
Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and… — Matt Drudge Copy Share Image
"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
The divinity of Jesus is not a dispensable extra that has no significance for our salvation. On the contrary, our salvation depends… — Klaas Runia Copy Share Image
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. — James Madison Copy Share Image
In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He… — Judith Lewis Herman 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
I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
