Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform. — John Negroponte Copy Share Image
Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet. — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, actors are extremely supportive of each other. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ... — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness:… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
In the beginning, Adam — not Eve— was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow. Contrary to conventional… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God. — Gustavo Gutiérrez 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
For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but,… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the… — Brian Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
