#contra

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #contra




Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.


Cyril Falls


#contrary #ensure #leadership #necessary #particularly

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.


Louise Brown


#book #brave #contract #dancing #editor

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.


Larry Buchanan


#acting #bit #contract #doing #fox

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.


Thomas Babington Macaulay


#community #competent #contradiction #direct #habits

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.


Enrico Fermi


#contrary #discovery #hypothesis #made #measurement

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.


Enrico Fermi


#contrary #discovery #hypothesis #made #outcomes

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.


George Chapman


#chastity #cold #contrary #does #effects

When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.


Madonna Ciccone


#came #contract #dancer #did #doing

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.


Joseph Fiennes


#compassion #contradictions #duty #fall #i

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.


Richard Cobden


#contrary #country #engaged #enter #going