Contrary Quotes

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God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and even… — Pope Benedict XVI
What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On… — Pablo Picasso
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science… — William S. Burroughs
The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. — J I Packer
Writing sustains me. But wouldnâ€™t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I… — Franz Kafka
When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no longer have a… — Anita Moorjani
What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play. — John Stuart Mill
On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they… — Richard Cobden
The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory can contend that… — Ludwig von Mises
I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm… — Sylvia Plath
Entrepreneursh ip is not about getting one over on the customer. Itâ€™s not about working on your own. Itâ€™s not about looking out for number… — Richard Branson
It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word --… — Epictetus
What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities… — Simon Baron-Cohen
Who is Barack Obama? Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and… — Barack Obama
I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never… — Helen McCrory
In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in… — Simone de Beauvoir
To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary. — George Herbert
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others,… — Paul Valery
Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem… — Konrad Zuse

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