Top 39 Contra Quotes
#1. Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb
L. Michael Hall
#2. Reagan survived the Iran-Contra scandal because the elements of it that were illegal (aiding anti-communist Nicaraguans) were popular and the things that were unpopular (arming the Iranians) were quite legal.
David Frum
#3. I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
Jack Nicholson
#4. I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
Fawn Hall
#5. Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
Susan Sontag
#6. I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
Oliver North
#7. Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.
Meghan Daum
#8. It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.
Amy Johnson
#9. How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.
Jim Coleman
#11. I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
Bianca Jagger
#12. the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case of affine geometry, we have a definite invariant quadratic form, viz. the metrical groundform once and for all as an absolute datum.
Hermann Weyl
#13. A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.
Gary Shapiro
#14. I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
Doug Liman
#15. There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
Bianca Jagger
#16. Remember how he handled the Iran-contra Never Ending Scandal from Hell? He went on national television, the President of the United States, and said it wasn't his fault, because he was not aware, at the time, of what his foreign policy was.
Dave Barry
#17. But Contra la Puerta was done mostly in the opposite way, starting with sounds and melodies.
Jim Coleman
#18. Contra: Why don't you trust me honey? Wait, rather I doubt that you are in a going around.
Vikrmn
#19. Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare - the brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone
Tacitus
#20. It was like the Iran/Contra hearings in the last century; then, too, the investigators had looked just so far and no further.
John Shirley
#21. So claim'd are the Surveyors in their contra-solar Return by Might-it-bes, and If-it-weres, - not to mention What-was-thats.
Thomas Pynchon
#22. He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#23. The Christian worldview, contra-postmodernism, understands language not as a Self-referential, merely human and ultimately arbitrary system of signs that is reducible to contingent cultural factors, but it has the gift of a rational God entrusted to beings made in his own image and likeness.
Douglas Groothuis
#24. For us the question is, has the marriage to do with well-being or with salvation? Is it a soteriological institution or a welfare institution?Is marriage, this opus contra natura a path to individuation or a way to well-being?
Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig
#25. Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him.
[Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti,
Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]
Ovid
#26. More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.
Doug Liman
#27. My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn't always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
Peter Dinklage
#28. Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment ... and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.
Eliot Porter
#29. Future complications in the strings between the cans. But no prints can come from fingers, if machines become our hands.
Jack Johnson
#30. All men are what they are by reasons of the laws they keep and the thoughts they think.
Ogwo David Emenike
#33. The past is the past. It's the present we should worry about.
Paul Russell
#34. Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"
Dexter Kozen
#35. But more often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.
Cecelia Ahern
#36. Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
Hun Sen
#37. The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
Gregory Bateson
#39. When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.
Kevin Bacon
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