Contrary Quote by David Malouf Download Open image “We’re such contrary creatures” — David Malouf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contrary Creatures
The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren,… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“The further away from something we are, the more we tend to mistrust it, Peter. we dislike the unknown, we reject anything alien to… — Gemma Malley Copy Share Image
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals. — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely… It is simply the most ordinary place in the world…It was so shabby and makeshift… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“The hundred possibilities a situation contains may be more significant than the occurrence of any of them, and metaphor truer in the long run… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“However the story is told and elaborated, the raw shame of it will be with him now til his last breath.” — David Malouf Copy Share Image
The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
“She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.” — David Malouf Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature. — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
