Countering Quotes

#1. The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

Mary Mattingly

#2. I never saw it coming," I said bleakly. "I thought I was so smart. And each time I talked to her, I dismissed her as some dumb, scattered girl. Meanwhile, she was laughing and countering my moves every step of the way. It's humbling. I don't meet many people like that.

Richelle Mead

#3. Countering him. The call does happen, a decision is made, and by evening I'm suited up in my Mockingjay outfit, with my bow slung over my shoulder and an earpiece that connects

Suzanne Collins

#4. When people encounter a significant threat, a response called "threat rigidity" sets in. The instinct of threat rigidity is to cease being flexible and to become "command and control" oriented - to focus everything on countering the threat in order to survive.

Clayton M Christensen

#5. I am glad that though someone did me grossly wrong my final mark on this world is not one of countering hurt with more hurt but is one of love and friendship. We will always be known by our actions. Let them always be good ones.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. Receive compliments gracefully instead of countering with a disclaimer such as, "Oh, this ratty old thing?" Try this instead: "Thank you." Period. Take

Jen Sincero

#7. If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.

Peter De Vries

#8. I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.

Kim Dickens

#9. Class analysis can thus function not simply as part of scientific theory of interests and conflicts, but of an emancipatory theory of alternatives and social justice as well. Even if socialism is off the historical agenda, the idea of countering the exploitative logic of capitalism is not.

Erik Olin Wright

#10. What's happening with the planet's climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate.

Dmitry Medvedev

#11. But here's the thing - lying would have become useless thousands of years ago if countering it was as simple as dismissing the liars completely. The really good liars were like chemists, brewing formulas that were mostly truth, the toxins undetectable in the mixture.

David Wong

#12. Countering violent extremism and destroying ISIS must be done primarily by Muslim nations with the strong support of their global partners.

Bernie Sanders

#13. A wide distance between the governors and the governed will produce a state that is predatory toward its own citizens, indifferent to their desires, and subject to the inbred whims and compulsions of its ruling class. It will produce crisis. Countering

Christopher L. Hayes

#14. Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ... the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda.

Jacques Ellul

#15. Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

Geoff Thompson

#16. Of countering it if that had been the only factor, since all non-rational inborn tendencies are a kind of disease which ought to be fought against.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics

David Blunkett

#18. The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

Winston Churchill

#19. Anyone who disagrees with radical Islamic propaganda is being attacked in the media, on college campuses, and at rallies countering events that promote the Islamic cause

Brigitte Gabriel

#20. William Stegner ... coined the term 'the geography of hope,' countering the argument that wilderness preservation served elites with the assertion that wilderness could be a place in which everyone could locate their hopefulness even if few actually entered it.

Rebecca Solnit

#21. Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

Emile M. Cioran

#22. After the war I was going to make up for lost time. But the time I spent away, it's still lost. No matter what I do, it stays lost.

Steven Herrick

#23. You will not! It's wrong."
"What, kissing you, or kissing you in Pies and Stuff?

Richelle Mead

#24. Sommerfeld's fine-structure theory was generally considered to be excellently and unambiguously confirmed by experiment. Because the theory rested on the foundation provided by Bohr, the experiments were also taken as strong support for his theory of atomic structure.

Helge Kragh

#25. We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.

John Anderson

#26. People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

Banana Yoshimoto

#27. There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

Tom Robbins

#28. If you really want to be an uncommon leader, you're going to have to find a way to get much of your vision seen, implemented, and added to by others.

John C. Maxwell

#29. The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

#30. Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

Ahmed Ben Bella