Rudy: Mary, Mary quite contrary. What makes your garden grow?
No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.
On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity. I...
Twitter is growing up, expanding into other countries, and recognizing that the Internet is contrary to what people hoped; the government does reach into the Internet.
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.
Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israel's security as absolute.
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
Contrary to popular belief, going shopping is really about stopping afterward for cheesecake.
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
