#contra

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. ↗

— Peter Straub

#buddies #contrary #despite #efforts #fear

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#contrary #descended #direction #french #french language

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#built #contradiction #criticized #discuss #discussion

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#big #changed #coming #contract #did

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#curing #earlier #false #follies #latter

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#albert einstein #always #because #contradict #dares

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#contracts #extensive #feeling #first #induces

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#be patient #contracts #decided #either #expect

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#aim #between #captured #contradiction #distinguish

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bring #confusing #contract #contracting #database