Quotes About Contrariness

#1. Manchester is in the south of the north of England.
Its spirit has a contrariness in it
a south and north bound up together
at once untamed and unmetropolitan; at the same time, connected and wordly.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth ... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.

Susan Sontag

#4. She drops her art if anything else catches her. Her contrariness prevents her taking it seriously - she must never be serious, she feels she might give herself away. And she won't give herself away - she's always on the defensive. That's what I can't stand about her type.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. My contrariness kept Char laughing, and his goodness kept me in love.

Gail Carson Levine

#6. He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

John Lanchester

#7. I was always interested in the man of the moment - and there were so many such moments.

Evelyn Keyes

#8. To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

Ray Bradbury

#9. Girls, where are you? I can't find you.

Alexander Ovechkin

#10. Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

Jesse Spencer

#11. ... he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.

James Hogg

#12. For a while she considered being ill, but she changed her mind ...

Tove Jansson

#13. A miracle happened: another day of life.

Paulo Coelho

#14. When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.

Pervez Musharraf

#15. Hap sighed. If he could change one thing about Umber-besides his constant need for the thrill of exploration-it would be his obsession with secrets and surprises.

P.W. Catanese

#16. It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.

Upton Sinclair