Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players. — Danny Ozark Copy Share Image
The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic. — T. H. White Copy Share Image
Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
From the very beginning I've said to women not to follow the fashion rules blindly, and to adapt clothes to suit who… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts… — George Voinovich Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, I'm not promiscuous. There does seem to be a mistaken belief out there that I am sexually available… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A potent poison becomes the best drug on proper administration. On the contrary, even the best drug becomes a potent poison if… — Charaka Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more contrary to nature, to reason, to religion, than cruelty; hence as inhuman man is generally considered as a… — Charles Buck Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of… — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely… — Konrad Zuse Copy Share Image
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to… — Ernst T. Krebs Copy Share Image
