Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Mahatma Gandhi
Helen Rowland
Margaret Atwood
George Santayana
Socrates
E. M. Forster
All authors
Today's birthdays
1853 - Cecil Rhodes
1889 - Jean Cocteau
1899 - Marcel Achard
1968 - Michael Stuhlbarg
1947 - Todd Akin
1960 - David E. Sanger
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Author
Artist
Mathematician
Astronaut
Psychologist
Chef
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Contrary Quotes
Contrary Quotes
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Jonathan Mayhew
Good
People
Obey
Argument
Submit
Duty
Design
Add
Rulers
Direct
Proves
Proving
Contradiction
Contrary
Office
Public
Far
Public Good
Act
Apostle
Farther
Now
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.
Joseph Brodsky
Journey
Poet
On The Contrary
Point
Doctrine
Metaphysical
Arrival
Contrary
Departure
Contrary to popular belief, the outskirts are not where the world ends - they are precisely where it begins to unfurl.
Joseph Brodsky
World
Contrary
Begins
Precisely
Ends
Where
Popular
Belief
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
Joseph Brodsky
Daily
History
You
Ethics
Prison
Sense
Translation
Down
On The Contrary
Indeed
Abstract
Most
Terms
Shed
Makes
Metaphysics
Contrary
Whatnot
Them
Your
Notions
Compact
Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
Kabir Bedi
Life
Relationship
Reality
People
Whatever
Every
Minute
Both
Could
Lifetime
Individuals
Accept
Shelf
Shelf Life
Understand
Contrary
Duration
Cannot
Then
Communicative
Reasons
Even
Last
Two
Two People
Imagined
From my experience both as DPP and previously as a human rights lawyer, I know that human rights and effective protection from terrorism are not incompatible. On the contrary, they go hand in hand.
Keir Starmer
Terrorism
Rights
Experience
Protection
Lawyer
Human Rights
On The Contrary
Both
Know
Go
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Effective
Contrary
Human
Incompatible
Contrary to what most people believe, fads are made, not born.
Ken Hakuta
People
Made
Believe
Born
Fads
Most
Contrary
Contrary to what you might assume, I didn't start with any advantages and neither did most of the successful people I know. I am the grandson of immigrants who came to this country seeking basic economic and personal liberty.
Kenneth Langone
You
People
Liberty
Country
Assume
Immigrants
Neither
Seeking
Economic
Advantages
Know
Most
Am
Came
Contrary
Did
Personal
Any
Personal Liberty
Might
Successful
Successful People
Grandson
Who
Basic
Start
Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.
Lady Gregory
Queen
Seventh
Something
He
True
Got
His
Edward
Contrary
Victoria
Body
Loyal
Pope
Just because there are people who violate rules, behave illegally and so on, it does not mean that everybody is like that. On the contrary, if you watch certain judges, you observe that they honestly try to implement what they believe the Constitution says and just put it into effect.
Leonid Hurwicz
You
Constitution
People
Try
Believe
Honestly
Everybody
On The Contrary
Rules
Says
Put
Observe
Implement
Like
Because
Judges
Does
Effect
Contrary
Behave
Just
Just Because
Mean
Certain
Who
Violate
Watch
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.
Lloyd Alexander
Myself
Reality
On The Contrary
Saw
Way
Never
Tales
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Understand
Contrary
Escape
Speaking
Cop-Out
Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.
Loretta Napoleoni
Terrorism
Business
People
Believe
Very
Contrary
Expensive
Many
Actually
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.
Lytton Strachey
Genius
Simplicity
Language
Single
Unity
Latin
Clarity
Restraint
Triumphed
Direction
Most
French
French Language
Stock
Contrary
Descended
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 believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
Ma Jian
Hope
Government
Strength
Will
Free
Free Speech
Believe
Futile
Willingness
Plurality
Rests
Come
Ideas
Suppression
Opinions
Encourage
Contrary
Repress
Realise
Regime
Chinese
Chinese Government
Them
Capacity
Speech
Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
Maajid Nawaz
Women
Rest
Face
Free
Islam
Down
Our
Airport
One Thing
Civil
Faces
Unreasonable
Hospitals
Namely
Institutions
Identify
Schools
Cover
Nor
Yes
Contrary
Walking
Expect
The One Thing
Banks
Them
Us
Should
Show
Teachings
Street
Thing
To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections.
Marek Belka
You
Year
Down
Some
Slowing
Rate
Both
Look
Course
Polish
Coming
Contrary
Expect
International
Growth
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Margaret Sanger
Love
Woman
Marriage
Submission
Earth
Degrading
Finer
Without
Contrary
Sensibility
Body
Notwithstanding
Her
Desire
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.
Mariella Frostrup
Positive
Best
Soul
Passion
Mind
Expectation
Down
Meeting
Relationships
More
Unreasonable
Weighed
Mythology
Powerful
Most
Attributes
Vulnerability
Contrary
Durable
Body
Popular
Based
Contrary to what everyone thinks, in my family, we didn't talk about politics at home.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
Politics
Home
Family
Everyone
About
Talk
Contrary
Thinks
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
Mark Haddon
Better
On The Contrary
Only
Perform
Most
Genre
Contrary
Than
Fiction
Literary
Literary Fiction
Mean
Novels
Functions
Two
I always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.
Mark Haddon
Life
Good
You
Thought
My Life
Think
Too
Despite
Spend
Everything
Evidence
Draw
Constant
About
Head
Feel
Like
Well
Learn
Understand
Always
How
Contrary
Trying
Just
Whereas
Anything
Process
Really
Works
Eventually
Kept
Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.
Mark Skousen
Food
People
Welfare
President
Recipients
President Obama
Address
Obama
Food Stamps
Does
Said
His
Contrary
Going
Just
Ask
Us
Stamps
Who
Medicare
Strengthen
I don't think that the Internet creates feelings that aren't there, nor does it provide an outlet. On the contrary, what I have thought about things like computer games - what has disturbed me about them - is that they appear to stimulate feelings of aggression without providing any physical release.
Mary Gaitskill
Me
Internet
Thought
Feelings
Think
On The Contrary
Release
Physical
Disturbed
About
Outlet
Computer
Like
Without
Does
Stimulate
Nor
Provide
Providing
Contrary
Any
Them
Creates
Aggression
Games
Appear
Things
Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.
Matt Drudge
Me
Gossip
Think
Medium
Everything
Easy
New
Bedroom
Label
Contrary
Just
Dismiss
Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.
Meir Soloveichik
Age
Youth
Signs
Men
On The Contrary
Seventy
Worshipped
Ours
Immortality
Costs
Botox
Sought
Proud
Contrary
Children
Regarded
Decidedly
Which
Aging
Avoided
Youthful
External
I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.
Michael Haneke
Me
Director
Father
Made
Men
Difficult
On The Contrary
See
Disturbing
More
Absence
Factor
Never
Contrary
Child
Working
Inclined
Suffered
Things
Started
Load more quotes
No more contrary quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Age
Building
About
Come