#contra

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #contra




My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.


David Brainerd


#approach #attended #been #blessed #blessed be

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.


Oriana Fallaci


#arafat #ask #contradicts #even #every

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.


Gerard Butler


#contracts #go #manager #over

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.


Jack Cade


#any #break #contrary #distinction #else

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.


Brian Baird


#annual #balance #budget #combined #contradictory

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.


Roger Nash Baldwin


#christian #conscription #contradiction #democratic #flat

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.


Kathryn Bigelow


#combat #comparison #contractors #else #individuals

I don't sign contracts for my books.


Andrew Vachss


#contracts #i #sign

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.


Juliette Binoche


#characters #choose #chose #contrary #full

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.


Evan Davis


#contracted #door #government #heart #here