Contrary Quotes

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Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary,… — Harriet B. Braiker
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion — Nicolas Gomez Davila
Courage is by no means incompatible with tenderness. On the contrary, gentleness and tenderness have been found to characterize the men, no less than the… — Samuel Smiles
Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence… — Miroslav Volf
To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not… — Yasmin Mogahed
You have a soft spot. Contrary to popular belief, it is not where you are weak, it is the gateway to indestructible power. — Susan Piver
You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at… — William Wallace Cook
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to… — H. L. Mencken
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary,… — Ludwig von Mises
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much… — Paul Brunton
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied,… — Thomas Merton
God is not pleased by blood â€“ and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body.… — Unknown Author
Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the Heaven of Heavens. So it… — C.S. Lewis
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports… — Joseph Addison
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary… — Russell Kirk
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. — Elaine Dundy
Contrary to the fantasies of the fundamentalists, there was no deathbed conversion, no last minute refuge taken in a comforting vision of a heaven or… — Ann Druyan
There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God. — Dave Hunt

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