Contrary People Quotes
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Contrary People Quotes & Sayings
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A complex system, contrary to what people believe, does not require complicated systems and regulations and intricate policies.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.
— James Rozoff
Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.
— Loretta Napoleoni
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Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.
— Boris Johnson
I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is contrary to their usual habits, I imagine.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction; he had on the contrary an engaging modesty.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
— Susumu Tonegawa
Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.
— John Wayne
Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books.
— James A. Michener
The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.
— Benjamin Franklin
The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.
— Michael J. Fox
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
— Aldous Huxley
The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Lightning always strikes in the same place twice," said Mma Ramotswe. "Whatever people say to the contrary.
— Alexander McCall Smith
He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.
— Paulo Coelho
But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
— Roger Daltrey
Belief is reassuring. People who live in the world of belief feel safe. On the contrary, faith is forever placing us on the razor's edge.
— Jacques Ellul
Contrary to most people's beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.
— Shayan Italia
Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you in certain ways.
— Martin Villeneuve
I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.
— Stuart Scott
Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.
— Jacques Delors
Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.
— Edward Snowden
Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity.
— Stephen Colbert
The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.
— Jalal Talabani
Contrary to what most people think, there is a Rich Daley under Mayor Daley.
— William M. Daley
We find other people's vanity contrary to our taste only when it is contrary to our vanity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I love the police, contrary to many people.
— Gerard Depardieu
