#contra

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#craft #folly #mind #novel #screen

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. ↗

— Paul Kurtz

#contrary #creatively #death #discovered #eating

It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#break #considered #contract #especially #major

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

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class #confirms #conscious #constructively #contrary

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

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself. ↗

— Patrick McGoohan

#blame #contract #few #go #i

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

— Thomas Middleton

#dreams #ever #ground #know #upon

Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ↗

— James Mooney

#although #among #considered #contrary #dance

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