#contrary

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#art #artist #contrary #does #everyone

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary. ↗

— Thomas Middleton

#dreams #ever #ground #know #upon

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. ↗

— Ralph Thomas Walker

#architects #been #book #contrary #fellow

Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran. ↗

— Freddy Adu

#any #anyone #beginning #career #contrary

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#beautiful #cities #contrary #convinced #me

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#caused #contrary #every #hated #hatred

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#contrary #even #happiness #him #his

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative. ↗

— Robert Barclay

#conscience #contrary #first #force #goods

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#beforehand #caused #contrary #exist #existed

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. ↗

— Julien Benda

#concerning #contrary #could #even #examination