Contrastively Quotes & Sayings

The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and natural background, is, however incorrigible it may seem to us, a rather peculiar idea within the context of the world's cultures. — Jonathan Haidt

You doona hate me for not being able to return you?" He paused for emphasis. "Ever, Gwen. I can't return you ever. — Karen Marie Moning

Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows, — John Green

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything. — Adam Carolla

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up! — Donny Osmond

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide. — Andrew Davidson

Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I didn't move for a bit, just lay there thinking about things. Like how the world was full of mystery and magic and horror and love. — April Genevieve Tucholke

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers. — Dane Cook

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. — Wendy Lesser

Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all. — Anna Akhmatova

Given that the limbic area shapes how we appraise the meaning of events, knowing the hand model and seeing the limbic area's distinct location from the higher areas of the cortex can help us realize that sometimes a "feeling" is indeed not a fact. — Daniel J. Siegel

When people possess information they deem too problematic to disclose, they will deceive. Contrastively, in situations where little personal, relational, or professional costs — Anonymous

I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds. — Yvonne Strahovski