#contra

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #contra




The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.


Adolf Loos


#art #artist #contrary #does #everyone

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations.


Pietro Mascagni


#contracts #decided #free #i #impressed

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.


Gary North


#commands #contrary #denying #enforce #first

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.


Agnes Repplier


#between #contrast #democracy #forever #heroic

So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.


Tommy Rettig


#contracts #last #last year #our #release

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


#because #believing #contrary #fooled #into

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.


Leo Rosten


#advises #another #any #before #contradict

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.


Walter Winchell


#hollywood #instead #observation #place #under

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.


Marcel Duchamp


#conforming #contradict #forced #i #my own

He should've read the contract a little closer before he signed, but being moments from a painful and violent death had provided a necessary sense of urgency.


Andrea Laurence


#death