Contrariety Quotes

#1. So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Victor Hugo

#2. Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve free institutions. The right of suffrage alone would be a sufficient guarantee. It is the conflict of opposing interests which renders it the most difficult work of man.

John C. Calhoun

#3. Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Only here is suffering really suffering. Not in the way that those who suffer here are to be ennobled in some other world for their suffering, but that what passes for suffering in this world is, in another world, without any change and merely without its contrariety, bliss.

Franz Kafka

#5. The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

Giordano Bruno

#6. Contrariety triumphed in the great hullaballoo of the end of the world!

Catulle Mendes

#7. We all are faced by problems of 'How am I going to get the rent?' or 'Am I going to have this job six months from now?' It's very difficult to define in your life a victory.

Michael A. Stackpole

#8. The collision between a Christian mind and a solidly earthbound culture ought to be a violent one.

Harry Blamires

#9. Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

Max Lerner

#10. When it comes to scary business, I believe that forewarned is forearmed.

Cary McNeal

#11. The key to enjoying wine isn't just to guzzle a lot of expensive wine, it's to learn about wine.

Jen Wilkin

#12. With pornography, if you don't get hard or wet, depending on your gender, it didn't work. With humour, if you don't laugh it didn't work. And with horror, if you don't get scared or haunted, depending on what it's trying to do, it didn't work. I'm fascinated by those three categories.

Neil Gaiman

#13. With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

Mason Cooley

#14. Clary saw him take Mark's hand; he pressed his witchlight into the boy's palm, where it flickered, and then resumed its steady glow. 'Take this with you,' said Jace, 'for it can be dark in the land under the hill, and the years very long.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair ... they feel.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#16. On the other side of self-doubt comes a confidence from faith in the process. Even though our destination may be a long way off, each day we rise with a subtle smile as if we have already achieved it, because, when we are truly committed to a task, we already have.

Chris Matakas