Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary. — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Miracles may be, for anything we know to the contrary, phenomena of a higher order of God's laws, superior to, and, under… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns. — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
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
God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
NASA's Aqua satellite is showing that water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, works to offset the effect of carbon dioxide - CO2.… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God… — Gary North Copy Share Image
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Contrary to what many people believe, the welfare state was originally a 'rightwing' invention. It was the arch-conservative Otton von Bismarck who… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
