Quotes About Contrariness

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

She drops her art if anything else catches her. Her contrariness prevents her taking it seriously - she must never be serious, she feels she might give herself away. And she won't give herself away - she's always on the defensive. That's what I can't stand about her type.

Aries: "I was going to do that but then you told me to."

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

Manchester is in the south of the north of England. Its spirit has a contrariness in it -- a south and north bound up together -- at once untamed and unmetropolitan; at the same time, connected and wordly.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

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

I'd always been stubborn. I admired Mr. Crepsley more than he knew, but hated the idea of looking like a pushover who did everything he was told. Sometimes I disobeyed the vampire just so he wouldn't think I was paying attention to what he said!

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people.

Ross took her hand and squeezed it, smiling to hear her more coherent. Her contrariness was music to his ears. "I'll let

THE MULE DISLIKES YOU

I don't follow what everybody else does.

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .

I'm all about zagging when everyone else is zigging.

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

A person does not want to please people, he wants to tease them.

But, with a bewildering contrariness, the intimacies of the Mars were between us and too vertiginous to cross.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and sheer malice.