Contravening Means Quotes & Sayings

because if you want someone badly enough, morals (and certainly professionalism) don't come into it. You'll do anything to have them. He just doesn't want me badly enough. — Paula Hawkins

Perfection is only achieved when there is nothing more that can be taken away rather then when there are things that can be added — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability. — Pola Negri

Mitt Romney not only believes in the values of economic freedom. His entire life has been committed to advancing it. — Sher Valenzuela

I've never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn't feel right or isn't going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it. — Fatima Robinson

I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk. — Morris Chestnut

I have a really beautiful mother. She is close to 60, and to this day doesn't wear a speck of make up or dye her hair, and everyone who meets her is completely dazzled by her. She seriously glows. — Julianne Nicholson

To be engaged to marry some one with whom you are not in love is an inevitable step in a world where the existence of passion is only a traveler's story brought from the heart of deep forests and told so rarely that wise people doubt whether the story can be true. — Virginia Woolf

For it was the one that I would have chosen above all others, convinced as I was, with a botanist's satisfaction, that it was not possible to find gathered together rarer specimens than these young flowers that at this moment before my eyes were breaking the line of the sea with their slender heads, like a bower of Pennsylvania roses adorned a Cliffside garden, between whose blooms is contained the whole tract of ocean crossed by some steamer, so slow in gliding along the blue, horizontal line that stretches from one stem to the next that an idle butterfly, dawdling in the cup of a flower which the ship's hull has long since passed, can wait, before flying off in time to arrive before it, until nothing by the tiniest chink of blue still separates the prow from the first petal of the flower towards which it is steering. — Marcel Proust

She was it for me. Always — Jay McLean

The mind, when it reaches its limits, must make a judgment and choose its conclusions. This is where suicide and the reply stand. — Albert Camus

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger ... they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor ... They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace. — Tacitus