On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots
Buddha
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
George Chapman
Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts
Ayn Rand
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same ...
Pablo Picasso
The true artist doesn`t substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.
D.H. Lawrence
[on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)] You would think from the critics` hostility that Ken Russell had tried to pull off some obscene hoax. On the contrary, the film is, I think, an utterly serious attempt to understand the nature of relig...
Oliver Reed
[on Star Trek fans] They`re the most devoted group of people and contrary to what people think, they don`t have antennae coming out of their heads.
DeForest Kelley
The bar . . . is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn`t l...
Luis Bunuel
[on Bing Crosby] I`ve never met anyone in the profession who was so unconcerned about his work. I don`t mean he was unprofessional. Quite the contrary. It`s just that once he finished a movie or a performance, that was that. He never watched his old movie...
Mary Crosby
[on making The Devils (1971)] It was a difficult and tiring role. I don`t think anyone in their right mind would say that they had fun shooting that film. It wasn`t created with the intent of having fun or being pleasurable; on the contrary, it was analyz...
Oliver Reed
I saw Taxi Driver (1976) five or six times in the first week, and I was astonished by its sheer visceral beauty. I just kept going back - I didn`t know America, but that was a glimpse of what America might be, and I realized that, contrary to expectation,...
Daniel Day-Lewis
Contrary to popular belief, I`ve never been to rehab. I`ve never been to jail, never been arrested. All the child-star clichés. I`ve tried very hard to avoid them all.
Macaulay Culkin
When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I`m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it`s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
Ben Affleck
Yes has been sleeping in this kind of awful mode that I think is slightly disrespectful to our beautiful fans. It`s all ... political is not the right word, but it`s all contrary to different people`s opinions of what`s right and what`s wrong. I think tha...
Steve Howe
When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
Alexa Gromko
We think his policies are totally contrary to what we want for Latin America and are promoting genocide, domination of workers and their communities and the plundering of natural resources,
Juan Gonzalez
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine
