Quotes About Contrary

Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

I don't ever read chat rooms, because if you've got sixteen nice things, number seventeen is always the person that just wants to be contrary.

She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!

All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.

There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Reason never wholly overcomes imagination, while the contrary is quite common.

There is enough light for those who desire only to see, and enough darkness for those of a contrary disposition.

God alone is man's true good, and since man abandoned him it is a strange fact that nothing in nature has been found to take his place...Since losing his true good, man is capable of seeing it in anything, even his own destruction, although it is so contrary at once to God, to reason, and to nature.

In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded.

Contrary to your view of me, I'm not a man who hands over his only son to the rabble." "Oh," Romulan said beautifully, "then in one instance at least, Father, you are unlike God.

but quite to the contrary a result of an intensely if not painfully aversively perceived environment." Behavior that looks antisocial to an outsider might actually be an expression of fear.

con-tu-ma-cious (adjective). Obstinately resisting authority; stubbornly perverse.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

I am not at all a romantic person, I hate flowers and candles... rather find it irritating.

Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes outside of New York until I was 11.

You are the most contrary man I ever met. If someone handed you a glass of free beer that was nine-tenths full, you'd cry over the missing tenth.

Good. Now let's go down to the pub and meet the townsfolk, Iain said. Bar, Euann corrected, just to be contrary. Let's go down to the pub before I hit ya with a bar, Iain said.

The complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a kind of natural law.

BEATRICE: You make me sound so dramatic, Catherine! CATHERINE: Well, you are dramatic, with your long black hair and the clear olive complexion that marks you a daughter of the sunny south, of Italy, land of poetry and brigands. You would be the perfect romantic heroine, if only you weren't so contrary about it. BEATRICE: But I have no desire to be a romantic heroine. MARY: Brigands? Seriously, Cat, this isn't the eighteenth century. Nowadays Italy is perfectly civilized.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

For Schaeffer "rationality" means mankind thinking in a way that is not contrary to reason, or as he put it, "man's aspiration of reason is valid.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice - especially when it's to the contrary.