Countervenes Quotes

#1. Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

Jack Vance

#2. She had met the man who was now her husband. He was seven foot three, and she was six foot two and a quarter. It was a match made perhaps not in heaven but certainly nearer the ceiling.

Jasper Fforde

#3. We live in a world where terrorism has a more familiar meaning than peace.

Keely Barton

#4. Promise me that if you get a chance to escape without me, you will do it. He won't kill me. Go find your men and come back for me."
His eyelids and brows lowered. " You don't know me very well or you wouldn't say such a thing. I won't leave you.

Melanie Dickerson

#5. If that's the case, I'm happy in my insanity.

Kristen Ashley

#6. Fantasy is a wise lie.

Deyth Banger

#7. Hell's got IT?
Yes, of course. Who do you think invented Candy Crush?

Gwynn Marssen

#8. We didn't get along, me and Bill Murray. But I've got to give it to him: I don't like him, but he makes me laugh even now. I'm also jealous that he's a better golfer than I am.

Richard Dreyfuss

#9. Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

Rick Rollens

#10. But if I had to pick another person for her, I'd have to say you, Jess, since I hold you in such high regard. Yes, you would be a good match, but I am the lucky one this time! - Bryan Gifford

Maggie Brendan

#11. Then we lapse into silence. It's these silences that do damage, that reveal glimpses of the distressed foundation struggling under the weight of things.

Matthew Norman

#12. Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Isaac Goldberg