Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people.… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. This cannot… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no… — Anita Moorjani Copy Share Image
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path:… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, the moment we land in Heaven we don't immediately know everything! If we did, we'd be God Himself… — David Berg Copy Share Image
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I wish and will continue to wish, that the German people should learn that by reason of practical examples afforded by their… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding 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
Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in… — Liang Qichao Copy Share Image
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies… — Frederick Winslow Taylor Copy Share Image
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should… — Gloria Steinem 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
