#contra

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#anything #bring #contrary #detracts #on the contrary

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#arrested #been #chance #child-like #cocoon

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#embraced #i #kind #like #philosophy

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ↗

— George Orwell

#beliefs #both #contradictory #holding #means

My father was a very contradictory man. ↗

— John Malkovich

#father #man #very

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. ↗

— William James

#one thing #only #other #philosopher #philosophers

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#advice #always #autonomy #best #contrary

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#adds #behind #chinese #congress #contrast

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#contrary #essays #his #i #i write

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed. ↗

— Dora Russell

#began #birth #birth control #britain #clinic