(69 quotes found)
“Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.”
Leo Rosten
“One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It's always more difficult to take on a case in which a contract might contradict or not substantiate verbal promises. However, it's not a burden that's never been met before.”
Christine Pritchard
“The court papers now contradict that. They say he was invited on it.”
Brian Walsh
“Fortunately, they didn't find anything that contradicted what I had already written.”
Ben Bova
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all”
“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“We're not contradicting the view that genetic changes occur in the development of cancers, but there also are epigenetic changes and those come first.”
Andrew Feinberg