#contra

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #contra




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


David Ricardo


#compared #contrary #exchange #gold #goods

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.


Anne Rice


#answers #ask #beings #contrary #few

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.


Cathy Rigby


#contract #gold #gold medal #heroes #medal

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.


Brooks Robinson


#contract #glove #last #loudest #moments

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.


Steve Ross


#back #binds #church #city #contradictions

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death.


Tammy Bruce


#break #care #condemning #contract #courts

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.


George Orwell


#beliefs #both #contradictory #holding #means

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.


William James


#one thing #only #other #philosopher #philosophers

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract.


Cobi Jones


#doing #just #league #matter #out

Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been.


Ruth Ann Minner


#contrast #our #our world #people #state