Goes Against Quotes
76 quotes by 61 authors
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Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in…
— F. F. Bruce
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Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught…
— Ayn Rand
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The technique of positive thinking is not a technique that transforms you. It is simply repressing the negative aspects of your personality. It is a…
— Rajneesh
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Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
— Rajneesh
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The climate change debate is basically not about science; it is about ideology. It is not about global temperature; it is about the concept of…
— Vaclav Klaus
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Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.
— Stephen Batchelor
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The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view…
— Bertrand Russell
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Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man' ... But Patrick loved it. He…
— Lisa Gerrard
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Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in…
— Thomas Aquinas
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I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in…
— Richard Matheson
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Things exalted then decay. This is going against the Way. What goes against the Way meets an early end.
— Laozi
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A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all that is beautiful…
— Rajneesh
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Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early…
— Laozi
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting…
— Alan Perlis
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Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.
— Oprah Winfrey
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The idea that we would operate and amputate healthy tissue from a baby, from an unconsenting minor, to supposedly prevent some hypothetical disease, goes against…
— James W. Loewen
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To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.
— Henry Cantwell Wallace
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