Contrary Quotes

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They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another. — Isabel Allende
Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it… — Mitch Albom
This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings… — Jerry Spinelli
These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and… — Charles Baudelaire
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved. — Emily Post
About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day,… — Boris Pasternak
A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite… — Jean Baudrillard
On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling… — Seth Grahame-Smith
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.' Osho — Rajneesh
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we… — Jonathan Edwards
Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand… — Elie Wiesel
Miracles, contrary to popular belief, do not just happen. A miracle is the achievement of the impossible, and it is only when we put aside… — Julie Andrews
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world. — Anthony de Mello
We have been told over and over that "you can't change human nature", but the study of emic realities shows quite the contrary, that almost… — Robert Anton Wilson
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise… — Hermann Hesse
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species… — Ayn Rand
Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't… — Orhan Pamuk
We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory… — Robertson Davies

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