“Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the air. On the contrary, when we imagine something, we do it necessarily conditioned by a lack in our concrete reality. When children imagine free and happy schools, it is because their real schools deny them freedom and happiness.” ChildrenImportantRealRealitySchoolImaginationClearImagineAirSocietyExerciseDenyContraryConcreteDetachedFreedom And Happiness Author:Paulo Freire
“Contrary to popular opinion, the Constitution was not - and is not - a grant of rights to the citizenry. Instead, the Constitution is a "barbed-wire entanglement" designed to interfere with, restrict, and impede government officials in the exercise of political power.” GovernmentPoliticalLibertyOpinionRightsExerciseConstitutionLibertarianContraryOfficialsGrantsLibertarianismInterfereWirePolitical PowerCitizenryPopular OpinionGovernment OfficialsEntanglementBarbed Wire Author:Jacob G. Hornberger
“You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it.” ThinkingMayChildrenHas BeensHardWholeFacesChoicesSituationExerciseTruth IsContraryWhole LifeSurrenderInevitableHidingHelplessHard Truths Author:C. L. Wilson
“As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons in strong health and spirits, who take plenty of air and exercise, who are "in favor with, their stars," and have a thorough relish of the good things of this life, seldom devote themselves in despair to religion or the muses. Sedentary, nervous, hypochondriacal people, on the contrary, are forced, for want of an appetite for the real and substantial, to look out for a more airy food and speculative comforts.” PeopleWorldWantLooksPersonsRealSpiritStrongStarsAirExerciseComfortDespairIdealsGood ThingsContraryFavorsNervousPlentyThis LifeAppetiteMuseThoroughRelishDissatisfiedAiryIdeal WorldSedentary Author:William Hazlitt
“It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.” TwoEnoughPlayMotherStrongRolesWifeDutyEasierExerciseAuthorityContraryObligationStrong EnoughWidowsGood MotherGood Wife Author:Honore de Balzac
“The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.” ShouldKindMatterDarkMusicModernExerciseSolitudeQuietComfortableTablesAlcoholContraryBarsDozen Author:Luis Bunuel
“No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value.” MenValuesWealthExerciseTradeProfessionContraryAcquireBenefiting Others Author:Thomas Huxley
“When I originally wrote "Jealousy," it was more like an exercise to try to write a girl-group kind of pop song. It was really contrary to most of the material I'd ever written. I didn't pay much attention to the song after I'd recorded it. I didn't really perform it at all the last 20 years. When it came time to make the new record, I decided to make peace with the song and have fun with it.” WritingTryingYearsKindLastsSongGirlFunPayAttentionRecordsWrittenGroupsMaterialsExerciseDecidedPopsContraryHaving FunMaking PeacePop SongGirl Groups Author:Natalie Merchant
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.” WritingYoungBeliefGrowsImaginationPowerfulCommonCreativityFantasyCreativeExerciseContraryMaturityMatureBe CreativeMy ImaginationCreative PowerCreative ImaginationImagination And CreativityImagination CreativityPower Of Imagination Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.” PeopleThinkingHelpingBodyPainTalkingExerciseWeightOneselfContraryMusclesUnconsciousStrainDoomWearinessDodge Book:The Diary of a Drug Fiend Source: The Diary of a Drug Fiend