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Quotes About Contrary

Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
~ Bob McDonnell
I answered that quite to the contrary, I considered Death—and in particular, the death of a beautiful woman—to be Poetry's grandest, most exalted theme.
~ Louis Bayard
Don't you see the inevitability of this moment? I mean we're talking serious process here, man. The perfect critic stepping forth from the demimonde of the war and blowing the heart of the painting to rubble, and then turning his weapon on the man whose actions have been the pure contrary of the work's formal imperative.' 'I'm outta film,' said the mestizo cameraman.
~ Lucius Shepard
However, all the methods of interventionism are doomed to failure. This means: the interventionist measures must needs result in conditions which from the point of view of their own advocates are more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they were designed to alter. These policies are therefore contrary to purpose.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I do what I do best. I move in the opposite direction.
~ Jodi Picoult
Most are deceived by and drawn to behavior and things that seem right, good, and wise but are contrary to His wisdom.
~ John Bevere
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition
~ Blaise Pascal
We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.
~ Catherine McAuley
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
~ William Shakespeare
Contrary to what a lot of people think, I don't enjoy doing press. I've been asked the same questions a million times now, and I don't particularly like talking about my personal life.
~ Donald J. Trump
Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry. "And what is beauty?" "Terror." "Well said," said Julian. "Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
~ Donna Tartt
A decision came quickly from the very top and we launched what the bureaucracy in Washington thought would be a small war under false pretenses and in the face of the on-scene military commander's advice to the contrary.
~ Unknown
The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
~ Jack Kevorkian
You can't serve God by acting contrary to His nature
~ Lynn Austin
Love is so whimsical in both sexes that it is impossible to be lasting. But my heart is particular and contradicts my own observation.
~ John Gay
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
~ May Sarton
I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.
~ Galileo Galilei
Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love
~ Mahatma Gandhi
159: To do ought good never will be our task, 160: But ever to do ill our sole delight, 161: As being the contrary to his high will 162: Whom we resist. If then his Providence 163: Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, 164: Our labour must be to pervert that end, 165: And out of good still to find means of evil;
~ John Milton
To do ought good never will be our task,   But ever to do ill our sole delight,   As being the contrary to his high will   Whom we resist.
~ John Milton
Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.
~ Barack Obama
Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
~ Peter Straub
Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
~ Plutarch
To win against your enemies you have to do the OPPOSITE of what they expect you to do.
~ Unknown