Top 91 Counterpart Quotes
#1. What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our counterpart; quite the contrary; within healthy limits, our unlike and our opposite.
Grant Allen
#2. Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
Edward Abbey
#3. Remember that the moment you reduce the statement of your desire, and a plan for its realization, to writing, you have actually taken the first of a series of steps, which will enable you to convert the thought into its physical counterpart.
Napoleon Hill
#4. Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.
Louis O. Kelso
#5. The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and conceptual vision of urban construction, and perhaps also of social construction.
Sverker Sorlin
#6. He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#7. Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors.
Johannes Itten
#8. Mason Patel is my counterpart. He is the eraser to my chalk. The milk to my cereal. The chocolate to my peanut butter. We were made for each other in cookie heaven.
Cheryl McIntyre
#9. The Mongols offered no counterpart to the common public entertainment of burning people alive that occurred so frequently in western Europe wherever the Christian church had the power to do so.
Jack Weatherford
#10. It costs about the same to house a maximum-security young adult prisoner for a year as it does to send his law-abiding counterpart to Harvard.
Robert Martensen
#11. I've always written songs with a visual counterpart in my mind that no one else can see.
Phil Elvrum
#12. Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; a missing counterpart wandered independently about the earth waiting in crass obtuseness till the late time came.
Thomas Hardy
#13. It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.
Sigmund Freud
#14. Death looked up angirly, and found himself staring into eyes that were black as the inside of a cat and full of distant stars that had no counterpart among the familiar constellations of the realtime universe.
Terry Pratchett
#15. The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
Gore Vidal
#16. It could be argued that the reaction to a work of art is a creative act which is the counterpart of the action of the artist.
Frank Willett
#17. THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.
Napoleon Hill
#18. The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist except when written, but whose absence is obscurely felt by that which exists, in its own incompleteness.
Italo Calvino
#19. A turd placed in the snow will become hard and significantly less odorous than its warm weather counterpart. This doesn't mean that it has ceased to be a turd.
P.J. Hetherhouse
#20. Americans often did not realize that their Marine Corps was a force without counterpart in the world. European navies used Marines for limited duties on shipboard or in naval bases, but neither the numbers nor the training were provided for large-scale offensive operations.
Lynn Montross
#21. There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.
John Ortberg
#22. Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.
Nenia Campbell
#23. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.
Andrew Bird
#24. Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
Alfred North Whitehead
#25. Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.
Alicia Keys
#26. It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals..
Margaret Starbird
#27. Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
Jason McCoy
#28. My heart pounded when its counterpart thumped beneath his skin. "How?"
"I don't care," he said, and kissed me.
Jeri Smith-Ready
#29. The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
Paul Watzlawick
#30. Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.
Elbert Hubbard
#31. Is this guy Love or Death? Jason growled.
Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank, Hazel, and Percy met my counterpart, Thanatos. We are not so different. Except Death is sometimes kinder.
Rick Riordan
#32. Everything that's alive has an etheric counterpart.
Yvette LeBlanc
#33. Self-love is no part of morality. Indeed it is exactly its counterpart. It is the sole antagonist of virtue leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.
Thomas Jefferson
#34. It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.
Paula Gunn Allen
#35. In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#36. Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair.
Elizabeth Bowen
#37. Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to such radiant white heart of child-likeness, it would be impossible to find a perfect counterpart.
Sister Nivedita
#38. This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
John T. Flynn
#39. Tradition spoke of an elegant half-arch being only a fallen pile of stones without its counterpart to make it whole.
Mercedes Lackey
#40. All is fair in love and war; and if this is not love, it was the usual thing that stands as a counterpart for it.
Anthony Trollope
#41. When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language
Leonard Sweet
#42. The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.
Gerald Jonas
#44. Jeremy would be a handsome groom. He looked like a Ken doll come to life. Probably has the
same plastic lack of parts as his tiny counterpart.
Did she mention that I probably brought her to more orgasms than your plastic junk could
ever dream of giving her?
Virginia Nelson
#45. Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.
Shirley Manson
#46. It was not, as some suggest, Calvinism that made Scots hard: it was Scottish character that made Calvinism, already congenial to the national spirit, even more rock-ribbed than its Genevan counterpart.
James G. Leyburn
#47. Sex is of the same clay as Time!
of the same clay Since both are in their essence but One-Way Time is the one-way dimension: sex its tart And subtle biological counterpart.
Wyndham Lewis
#48. Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.
John Paul Stevens
#49. The expectation of future glory and the joy of future redemption has its counterpart here and now in the implications for the present life of the believer.
Henry R. Van Til
#50. Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.
Martin Edwards
#51. Your attitude towards your husband will reflect how you receive your gift. You are also a gift! A precious and powerful gift--a counterpart, a wife. It is important to see your husband and yourself as gifts to each other everyday you have together, for that will influence how you treat each other.
Jennifer Smith
#52. The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.
Michael Feldman
#53. Measured in bits or their drolly named quantum counterpart, qubits.
James Gleick
#54. When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its purpose, and Time itself shall come to an end.
David Mitchell
#55. Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart - had a mate. A rightness. She'd always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.
Nora Roberts
#56. McKenna was her counterpart, her compass, her sanctuary.
Lisa Kleypas
#57. The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip bulb frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well understood.
Kenneth Fisher
#58. The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. Most of the contexts are life and death, by the way, and God is your only hope. Your ezer. If he is not there beside you ... you are dead. A better translation therefore of ezer would be "lifesaver." Kenegdo means alongside, or opposite to, a counterpart.
John Eldredge
#60. As a black actor, you always have the feeling that there's not as much work out there as for a white counterpart, but is America after all; you have to play ball if you're going to play ball.
Dorian Missick
#61. The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.
Anna Quindlen
#62. The Ticket-wallah, whose pimples bubbled as I watched, was as intractably dense as his counterpart in King's Cross. The Corporation breeds them from the same stem cell.
David Mitchell
#63. In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
Warren Farrell
#64. Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.
Napoleon Hill
#65. Our soul should be a mirror of Christ; we should reflect every feature: for every grace in Christ there should be a counterpart in us.
Robert M
#66. I hadn't hold out much hope for myself; if my counterpart existed, he'd be amazingly talented to make up for my shortcoming, and that would condemn me to a life of living in his shadows; or he'd match my feeble powers and be so weak that we'd barely sense each other.
Joss Stirling
#67. 0Cross-gender behaviour is seen as less acceptable in boys than it is in girls: unlike the term 'tomboy' there is nothing positive implied by its male counterpart, the 'sissy'.
Cordelia Fine
#68. We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.
Bobby Bonilla
#70. I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public.
George Harrison
#71. Justus?" she whispered. "I know it is not ladylike for me to ask, but I very much would for you to kiss me again."
Those sensuous lips of his curved in a smile that made her belly flutter. "See, you are my counterpart, for I was just going to do just that.
Brooklyn Ann
#72. There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
Criss Jami
#73. A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is supposed to be 4'9". That's the size of my 12-year-old son.
Barbara Demick
#74. The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#75. Ti amo. Esisti solo tu per me." I love you. You're the only one for me. "You're my pleasure, my sanity, my calmness, my home. My positive counterpart in every negative characteristic I own.
Soraya Naomi
#76. Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
Augustus William Hare
#77. When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
Camille Pissarro
#78. Grown children (an oxymoron, I realize) veer instinctively to extremes: the young scholar is much more a pedant than his older counterpart. And I, being young myself, took these pronouncements of Henry's very seriously. I doubt if Milton himself could have impressed me more.
Donna Tartt
#79. You cannot not communicate. Every behavior is a kind of communication. Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is not possible not to communicate.
Paul Watzlawick
#80. Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.
Arielle Ford
#81. Our mathematics is the symbolic counterpart of the universe we perceive, and its power has been continuously enhanced by human exploration.
Mario Livio
#82. I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.
Philip Kitcher
#83. And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity.
Imam Ali Bin Abi Taleb
#84. Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
Mark Hopkins
#85. For many of us, once we have made a decision, then we are attached to that decision forever. I have found that often the last thing a really dominating left hemisphere wants is to share its limited cranial space with an open-minded right counterpart!
Jill Bolte Taylor
#86. And, though reading may not at first blush seem like an act of creation, in a deep sense it is. Without the enthusiastic reader, who is really the author's counterpart and very often his most secret rival, a book would die.
Henry Miller
#87. If you'll curtail your literary pursuits a moment I'll introduce you to my counterpart and Nemesis; I would be trite and say, 'to my better half,' but I think that phrase indicates some kind of basically equal division, don't you?
Ken Kesey
#88. Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.
Mary Butts
#89. The irony of the human heart is that it's tormented both by the presence and absence of it's own soul's counterpart.
Crystal Woods
#90. The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart.
Hermann Hesse
#91. The abode of the spirits are astral world and earth land counterparts. In the path of evolution, the soul is futile. You need a body to unfold consciousness.
Usha Cosmico
