Counterintuitive Examples Quotes

#1. And the Middle East, well, I think we can all see what we've made there. What a hand we've had in the making of our own demise. How masterful. And the world will continue to be melted by a sun we've crossed terribly with our progress.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#2. Most people understand that Lehman Brothers didn't collapse because Gordon Brown built too many schools and hospitals.

Douglas Alexander

#3. Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

Scott Ritter

#4. But I'd understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way you lose. What can I tell you? Love's a bitch.

Gayle Forman

#5. the words are only part of the poetic
formula: the rest is ritual, and the
reason in THEM must contend with the
mechanics of magic-making in IT -- and
must not win.

Laura Riding Jackson

#6. War, misery, and death spared no soul, and took pity on no family.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

John Henry Cox

#8. I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.

Kirsten Dunst

#9. Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.

Lewis Carroll

#10. Life is serious. (Valerius) No, life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. (Tabitha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

Justin Timberlake

#12. No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Venus Williams

#13. Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

William Wordsworth