Contrary Quotes - Page 28

• Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

  Ben Stein

  Academic Freedom, People, Challenges

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• Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.

  David Hume

  Shining, Judgement, Sun

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• God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Lost, Feels

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• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Stubborn, Sometimes

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• I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.

  Rene Descartes

  Rocks, Doubt, Clay

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• It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, People, Majority

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• Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

  Thomas More

  Running, Caring, Roots

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• I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thinking, Sometimes, Court

  Ronald Reagan (1975). “The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan”

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• Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my mind; on the contrary they will lead to a certain despair of the inner person. Not what he thinks engages the artist, but what he feels.

  Bram van Velde

  Artist, Thinking, Mind

  Letter to H.P. Bremmer, as quoted in "Bram van Velde, A Tribute, Municipal Museum De Lakenhal Leiden, Municipal Museum Schiedam, Museum de Wieger", Deurne 1994 (English translation: Charlotte Burgmans), November 17, 1930.

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• Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

  John Calvin

  Doe, Suspense, Delay

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on the Gospel of John”, p.57, Ravenio Books

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• Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was actually quite the contrary.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Strong, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As an actress, I think I really understand that stage where you think you are picking reality in order to feed the fiction, but it happens to be the contrary. It's the fiction that suddenly feeds your reality. And you don't know how it has been done. That's the kind of magical transposition that is art.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even better place by making another thing which will be even bigger than the last thing... and it is part of the pathology of being an architect to believe thus, and they do believe it, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

  Jonathan Meades

  Believe, Thinking, Creating

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary.

  Carly Fiorina

  Support, Facts, Common

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.

  Kaija Saariaho

  Art, Writing, Past

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may provoke. And I don't know, but I must mention the name Borges. I try to mention it in every one of my works. It's a mark, a stamp, a sort of homage to Argentinidad. But it's an homage that works through pat phrases, those stock images that populate his work: the night, labyrinths, libraries. That is, I don't want simply to pay homage to Borges, but rather the contrary: to recall his commonplaces.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Night, Names, Labyrinth

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Struggle, Recovery, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If someone is brought in for an interview, for example, and is asked about their views on things, but has posted things that are completely contrary to the interview, frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview.

  Adam Schiff

  Views, Example, Courses

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Chaos is a natural state of being - as natural as structure is - so there is no reason to fear it. On the contrary, one should embrace it. It means something extraordinary and unexpected is about to happen.

  Tohoru Masamune

  Mean, Chaos, Unexpected

  "Tohoru Masamune: Pursuing Dreams and Embracing Chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I originally wrote "Jealousy," it was more like an exercise to try to write a girl-group kind of pop song. It was really contrary to most of the material I'd ever written. I didn't pay much attention to the song after I'd recorded it. I didn't really perform it at all the last 20 years. When it came time to make the new record, I decided to make peace with the song and have fun with it.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Song, Fun

  "Paradise is here: an interview with Natalie Merchant". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, livingoutli.org. April 19, 2016.

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• I would like to say is that to be truly American and represent American ideals you need to consider yourself a citizen of the world. American policy has gone contrary to that ideal. The Bush Administration is bent on making the world submit to "Americanism" instead of becoming a member of the world community. This orchestration comes from the very top of the Administration and has pushed America into a corner. So, rather than trying to humbly mix with the rest of the world, we are forcing ourselves upon it. We seem to create conflicts with everyone.

  Chuck D

  America, Community, Trying

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I don't believe in the theory that the United States is reducing its presence in the Middle East. Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase in American military presence, as well as an increase in American investments. The argument is more accurate when one says America is focusing more attention to the Far East. But I don't believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Military, Believe, America

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be applied, hence becomes methodology without a hitch, but isn't necessarily practical at all.

  Paul Fry

  Deployment, May, Methodology

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• Keeping this facility [Guantanamo prison] open is contrary to our values. It undermines our standing in the world. It is viewed as a stain on our broader record of upholding the highest standards of rule of law.

  Audie Cornish

  Law, Records, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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