Quotes About Contrary

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Sometimes, despite what has been said to the contrary, actions don't quite speak as loud as the written expression of bearing one's soul. I think that this is the key to whether some emotion is ever truly appreciated or whether it is forever trapped in an existential vacuum inside of us.

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.

En el mundo en que vivimos, con sus luces y sus sombras, afirmar que uno se realiza con el don sincero de sí —siguiendo las huellas de Jesús— significa ciertamente ir a contracorriente. Son muchas las voces que se alzan con una propuesta contraria: "Piensa en ti mismo, no te compliques la vida, vive para ti". Pareciera que el darse a los demás nos quitase la libertad de hacer lo que nos da la gana.

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

But any idea of plainness is simply contrary to the fancy color that is red.

it is completely contrary to the nature of sin to confess that one has sinned.

When the mind thinks nothing, when the soul covets nothing, and the body acteth nothing that is contrary to the will of God, this is perfect sanctification. ANONYMOUS, in an old Bible, 1599.

Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and "gives the whole show away." The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden

If someone said 'diametrically,' could 'opposed' be far behind?

Then there is the "intelligent" signal from outer space that has defied explanation for thirty years; the enigma of our sense of free will despite all scientific evidence to the contrary; the spacecraft that are being pushed off course by an unknown force; the trouble we have explaining the origin of both sex and death using our best biological theories … the list goes on.

Literal interpretation without context is not only dangerous but contrary to what the Bible teaches.

He is the antithesis of the gregarious pol with a highball in one hand and a cigar in his mouth, offering a colorful dose of political lore under a dim bar light.

?nsanlar bir sincaptan daha karma??kt?r. A?k?, nefreti, k?skançl??? hissederiz biz. Kimileri dürüsttür. Kimileri hayatlar?n? kurtarmak için yalanlar söyler. Ço?unlukla insanlar iyinin ve kötünün kar???m?d?r. Kimileri sevimlidir, kimileriyse aksi.

If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

to a viewpoint that was contrary to God's word put Eve on a slippery slope that led to disobedience

Umoristica (medica): "Gli specialisti sono mistici e sapienti come i Magi, ma funzionano al contrario: sei tu che devi andare da loro

It is a mere consolation to the timid to imagine that philosophy has died. The fact of the matter is quite to the contrary. Philosophy will be the last of human things; perhaps the efficient impulse of the end.

We doubt the importance of many virtues as long as we do not come across the contrary vice.

How strangely, how inconceivably our fate plays with us! Do we ever get what we desire? Do we ever achieve that for which our powers seem purposely to prepare us? Everything happens in a contrary way. To this one fate gave wonderful horses, and he drives around indifferently without ever noticing their beauty—while another, whose heart burns with the horse passion, goes on foot and contents himself with merely clicking his tongue as a trotter is led past him.

Maybe my mother had been right, and I should have been a lawyer. She always maintained that at least as a lawyer my contrary nature would be an asset.