Quotes About Contrary

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.

Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

The second I tell myself I have to do something, I'm sure to do the opposite.

I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

I typically do the opposite of what people think I am going to do.

Because they don't want to seem vulnerable. Humans have a lot of this attitude called 'pride,' which is sort of like the satisfaction you get when your machine performs correctly. Pride makes them act contrary to the way they really feel.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, that our devices still are overthrown; our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

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!

But, orderly to end where I begun: Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. So think thou wilt no second husband wed, But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.

In order to destroy this system which we so much detest we are creating conditions over here which run contrary to our dearest p-principles.

One could understand Judge Wilk's first impression, an impression he would never rise above despite all evidence to the contrary.

The only answer to Hitler was a contrary violence.

Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination. —Ruth Benedict

I take it that I have to address an intelligent and reading community who will peruse what I say, weigh it, and then judge whether I advance improper or unsound views, or whether I advance hypocritical and deceptive and contrary views in different portions of the country. I believe myself to be guilty of no such thing as the latter, though, of course, I cannot claim that I am entirely free from all error in the opinions I advance.

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.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

Antonym, n. The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

But the order in which these sources will be discussed is not arbitrary. They are listed in descending order of reliability and predictability. For, contrary to almost universal belief, new knowledge – and especially new scientific knowledge – is not the most reliable or most predictable source of successful innovations. For all the visibility, glamour, and importance of science-based innovation, it is actually the least reliable and least predictable one.