Contrary Quotes

1184 quotes by 895 authors

Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't?… — Ronald Reagan
Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished. — George Watsky
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force,… — William Godwin
Contrary to most peopleâ€™s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision. — Shayan Italia
For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole… — Pope Pius XI
Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the… — Graham Joyce
The next time someone asks for your opinion, and you know itâ€™s contrary to that personâ€™s viewpoint, take the risk of putting your perspective on… — Lois P Frankel
The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words. This… — Andrew Johnson
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they… — Ma Jian
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing… — Paul Harding
Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to secede from the… — Walter E. Williams
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net… — H. L. Mencken
The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost… — Tammy Bruce
...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate,… — George Orwell
If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be.… — Emile Coue
It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary,… — Francois Fenelon
The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the… — John Gresham Machen
Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education… — Bell Hooks

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