#contra

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #contra




Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.


Bruce Schneier


#cannot #contrary #country #damage #despite

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money.


Sherry Stringfield


#get #i #long #long time #money

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.


Douglas Trumbull


#contractor #design #film #ibm #interface

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.


David Reuben


#being #being done #business #contracts #dollars

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.


Joanna Russ


#contrary #faith #gambler #ideas #like

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#correcting #correction #criticism #inspirational #dreams

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.


George Saunders


#contradiction #ideas #wisdom #writing #art

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.


Benjamin Zander


#contradiction #creativity #possibility #talent #art

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.


George Bernard Shaw


#authors #business #contracts #publishers #publishing

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.


Paul Getty


#always #any #believed #binding #business