If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
When you ban people from predominantly Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., even people who accompanied our soldiers and helped them… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
I have never heard of a tradition among Jews that encourages us to support each others' differences. Quite the contrary. What I've… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
I've been criticized by many anarchists as believing that anarchism is impossible without affluence. On the contrary, I think affluence is very… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In geology we cannot dispense with conjectures: [but] because we are condemned to dream let us ensure that our dreams are like… — Scipione Breislak Copy Share Image
God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs. — Robert Quillen Copy Share Image
Some fans have a mistaken opinion of the average umpire. He is human, all reports to the contrary. Every fellow who is… — Billy Evans Copy Share Image
If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Despite rumors to the contrary, a mime is actually a very satisfying thing to waste. — Lev L. Spiro Copy Share Image
As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it. — Hans Wilsdorf Copy Share Image
I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports,… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement. — David Hume Copy Share Image
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image