Contrary Quotes

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A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to… — Paul Rotha
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's… — Diane Setterfield
I've never used performance-enhancing drugs of any kind, and I never will. I've never met or spoken with Tony Bosch or used any substances provided… — Gio Gonzalez
Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious… — Ernest Gellner
Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love. — Mahatma Gandhi
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. — George Orwell
Frequent not the company of immodest persons, especially if they be also impudent, as is generally the case; ...these corrupted souls and infected hearts scarcely… — Saint Francis de Sales
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself,… — Leo Tolstoy
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use… — Leo Tolstoy
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the… — Nathaniel Branden
Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees… — Joseph Hall
You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there… — Bernardino of Siena
What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature. — Ambrose
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the… — Theophan the Recluse
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to… — William Butler Yeats
We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast;… — Donald M. Nelson
I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion… — Stand Watie
"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason… — Arthur Conan Doyle
All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of… — Murray Rothbard
Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself… — Philip Caputo

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