Counterexamples Quotes

#1. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

Nick Hanauer

#2. As these examples show, Freud's theory is resourceful, perhaps dangerously so, in incorporating apparently recalcitrant counterexamples.

Sigmund Freud

#3. Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#4. I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

William P. Young

#5. If anything in nature was as beautiful as it was deadly, it was she.

Randy C. Dockens

#6. A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Worrying about the past is tending the ashes instead of the fire.

A.R. Simmons

#8. Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#9. I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

James A. Michener

#10. The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

Alfred Korzybski

#11. We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

Katherine Center

#12. I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

Logan Lerman

#13. God, I swear I've never seen a more
nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.

Feather Stone

#14. Critical to the fight against global terrorism is an ability to move beyond presuppositions and stereotypes in our attitudes and policies and to form partnerships that transcend an "us" and "them" view of the world. (p. 135)

John L. Esposito

#15. She was falling apart beneath my hands, and I was falling apart beneath her. My power was her power, and together, we sent each other soaring.

Rachael Wade

#16. I believe that two people can meet and enrich each other's lives. I'd say that about my parents. But I think it is harder and harder to commit to only one person in a lifetime.

Ivana Trump