Contrary Quotes

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

No, I don’t wear contacts, and contrary to what some people have said, I do not have a glass eye.

Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.

Contrary to a common myth, while there are general guidelines, there is no exact 'right' way to run ... I am amazed by the many ways people move forward.

Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them.

There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be noticeably silly.

God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.

Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.

There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

I'm saying we need to be aware of it, and we need to be able to distinguish when political developments are occurring that are contrary to the public interest.

There is no excuse for falling into delusion, which is so contrary to the Word of God.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can be self-defeating.

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees...

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Contrary to popular belief, I have always had a wonderful repertoire with my players.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the contrary - yet it must be bright, clear, alive fresh, and all the front seen.

That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.

But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.

Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.