Quotes of: On-the-contrary Keyword

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Samuel Butler

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.

Bernard Hinault

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Thomas Aquinas

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

Juliette Binoche

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

David Hume

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

Baron d'Holbach

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

Benjamin Tucker

For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process...

Naomi Wolf

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Peter Ustinov

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

Roger Daltrey

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

Tim Curry

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

Ezra Taft Benson

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

David Ricardo

Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.

Nick Goepper

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

Arthur Henderson

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

Franz Schubert

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Haim G. Ginott

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

Jalal Talabani

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli