Quotes About Contrary

Despite popular assertions to the contrary, science tells us that money can buy happiness. To a point.

But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom.

I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the other. I also have a temper.

I love the police, contrary to many people.

As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.

Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice. "On the contrary," I heard Dorian say pleasantly. "I didn't use magic for that. I just threw it.

You used your power to toss a rock at me?'- Aeson 'On the contrary, I didn't use magic for that. I just threw it.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

The Christian religion is so manifestly contrary to the facts, belief in it can only be held with the most delusional gerrymandering imaginable.

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

I stroked your hair in a direction opposite to your journey

He's the polar opposite of an auction.

One [belief] is that violence is caused by a deficit of morality and justice. On the contrary, violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators. Steven Pinker

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

It was the job of Trump's lawyer to tell him not to do it. But that's not what Giuliani did. To the contrary, Trump sent Giuliani to Ukraine, and he went. Together, the two men didn't just advocate for collusion with Ukraine; they executed it.

And if you flatter yourself that I don't perceive it, you are a fool; and if you think I can be consoled by sweet words, you are an idiot; and if you fancy I'll suffer unrevenged, I'll convince you of the contrary[.]

Thus Blackstone is right when he says, Human laws are invalid, because they are contrary to the laws of nature.

In point of fact, Christianity has run contrary to art in so much as it has not favoured the study of the nude. Art is the representation of nature, and nature is pre-eminently the human body; it is the nude.

Then one evening, contrary to his custom, he drank black coffee and couldn't sleep. Ideas arose in crowds. He felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.