Contrary

Famous quotes containing the word contrary:

“I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)