Quotes About Contrary

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

Confirmation bias. This is our tendency to seek out information that supports and reinforces our beliefs, and ignore or discount any information that is contrary to them. So we stick to our guns, even against overwhelming evidence that we're wrong.

There is a Spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is a nature contrary to itself.

You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants

Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

I have contrarian tendencies.

Instead I waited, which is what the Nude Descending a Staircase does, contrary to one's expectation and which is exactly why it has always provoked such a peculiar critical response.

Sometimes being a contrary bastard was a real pain.

oppositosis.

these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.

but these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.

But mankind, on the contrary, is repelled by blood. It is not the laws of society that condemn murder, but the laws of nature.

ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?With silver bells, and cockleshells,And pretty maids all in a row.

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Frankly, I wouldn't have a problem to play at Barca - to the contrary.

Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Mistress Mary got up from the log at once. She knew she felt contrary again, and obstinate, and she did not care at all. She was imperious and Indian, and at the same time hot and sorrowful.