In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on,… — Huldrych Zwingli Copy Share Image
The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms?… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Believing that war is contrary to the will of God and to common sense, and feeling that the way of peace is… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Music is a solace for me now. As I age, contrary to common sense, I am more and more drawn into it… — Mark Heard Copy Share Image
The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge… — Ralph Thomas Walker Copy Share Image
A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The new education must consist essentially in this, that it completely destroys freedom of will in the soil which it undertakes to… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
The world saw and understood that, when it comes to the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations, they have to deal not just… — Serzh Sargsyan 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
I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling… — Sunni Brown Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Nobody wants a job where they don't have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
[I]t is contrary to the economy of God for any member of the Church, or any one, to receive instruction for those… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
Poland does not want to remain a net recipient of EU subsidies forever. On the contrary: we want the right to develop… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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