Contraryi Quotes & Sayings

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life. — Wendell Berry

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders. — Anatoli Boukreev

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible. — Ida Tarbell

I shutter to think your demon fingers ever held my gentle skin. Your aged, jaded heart ever held me-if even for a moment-inside hers. I shake when I think your name knows mine, your lips have touched mine.
You didn't break my heart, you tortured her. And for what, but the bitter revenge of the one who had destroyed you, long before I even knew you.
I could say you are dead, but you are very living. You live to destroy, as you were once destroyed. You live to kill. — Coco J. Ginger

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change. — Gustavo Dudamel

I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float. — Polly Horvath

These earthenware bowls are fragile and easily broken, they are only made of a little clay on which fortune has precariously bestowed a shape, and the same could be said of mankind. — Jose Saramago

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it. — Sir Mix-a-Lot

To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas. — Martha Stewart

You don't give people dignity. You affirm it. — John M. Perkins

There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest. — Katherine Heigl