#contra

Contradictory to my religion, I think, is journalism. ↗

— Sydney Schanberg

#i #i think #journalism #religion #think

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradict #endeavor #fair #friend #him

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#appearances #apply #contrary #could #english

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #combination #contradictory #creative #creative life

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#contract #conversation #i #ongoing #ordinary

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#british #british people #call #contrast #democrats

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#classical #consumer #contrast #economic #economic life

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#capitol hill #company #contractors #everybody #formula

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#book #contradiction #improvisation #moment #partly