#contra

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#cigarettes #contrast #culture #extra #i

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#believe #contrary #criterion #directly #held

Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect. ↗

— William Watson

#believe #contrary #diminution #future #gradual

When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#break #care #condemning #contract #courts

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#contractual #i #marriage #partnerships #relationships

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bring #confusing #contract #contracting #database

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

#contrast #evil #good-and-evil #heaven-and-hell #observation

We do not see the sort of fundamental changes that would be necessary to reduce the trajectory of federal health spending by a significant amount and, on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs. ↗

— Doug Elmendorf

#care #care costs #changes #contrary #costs

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