I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.
Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.
The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.
The influence of friendship upon culture differs from that of love, in that it assumes the basic idiosyncrasies of personal taste to be unalterable. Love, in spite of all rational knowledge to the contrary, is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!
Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.
The syllogism art for art's sake refers to that kind of painting which disregards, or is contrary to, public taste.
Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it.
No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.
There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.
Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.
We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.
We human beings have not secured happiness; on the contrary, science gives us catastrophes. We are like travelers losing their way in a desert. They see a big black shadow ahead and desperately run to it, thinking it may lead them somewhere. But after running a long way, they no longer see the shadow and fall into the slough of despond. What is that shadow? It is this ""Mr. Science.
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. " "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. " "Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. " "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.
Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.