Contrariwise Quotes

#1. I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!"
"Contrariwise," added the one marked 'DEE', "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak.

Lewis Carroll

#3. Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Boethius

#6. The extraordinariness of a man's life does not make him extraordinary, but contrariwise if a man is extraordinary he will make extraordinariness out of a life as humdrum as that of a country curate.

W. Somerset Maugham

#7. Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Martin Gardner

#8. Men, as is more than evident, respond, contrariwise, to the dictates of their genital and digestive organs.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.

John Bunyan

#10. I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.

Robert Motherwell

#11. We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

Joseph Campbell

#12. I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

John Cusack

#13. I don't care what those two Neanderthals say. You'll always be my baby girl first." I

Liane Moore

#14. The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

Geoff Mulgan

#15. You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Muhammad Ali