Contrary Quotes

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

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

Faith is not contrary to reason.

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

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

Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.

Contrary to my image, I do have a sense of humour.

Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.