Famous quotes containing the words contrary and/or motion:
“I borrowed today out of the Advocate’s Library, David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, but found it so abstruse, so contrary to sound sense and reason, and so drearying its effects on the mind, if it had any, that I resolved to return it without reading it.
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—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“... The festival-colored brightness
That is their motion ...”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)