#contra

Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley. ↗

— William M. Daley

#daley #mayor #most #people #rich

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#contrary #departure #doctrine #journey #metaphysical

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#boston #contracts #face #felt #i

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#conclusions #contrary #enough #far #follow

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words. ↗

— William Congreve

#contradict #may #must #never #speak

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#concerned #contrasted #discipline #far #forms

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#contradict #i #necessary #ok #proved

Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did. ↗

— DMX

#columbia #contract #did #glad #groups

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#contradictory #her #him #important #label

It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994. ↗

— Robbie Fowler

#because #contract #even #everyone #i