Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul. — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
No, I don’t wear contacts, and contrary to what some people have said, I do not have a glass eye. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do. — Ryan Lindley Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment. — Henry Hazlitt 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
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism. — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
The last 15 years, there has been no recorded warming. Contrary to all the theories that they are expounding, there should have… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of… — Fernand Braudel 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
Radicals are not going to disappear. They're going to go underground. They're going to be hardened. And they're not going to be… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way… — Anatoliy Golitsyn Copy Share Image
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that this is… — Jons Jacob Berzelius Copy Share Image
