Counterweights Quotes

#1. Fear ... the right and necessary counterweights to that courage which urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction

Heinrich Harrer

#2. But somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

Laurie R. King

#3. The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.

Pierre Trudeau

#4. To far too many, science is a four-letter word, and under the modern media's false equivalency standards, a handful of skeptics are viewed as counterweights to the vast majority of scientists who acknowledge mankind's proven role in global warming.

Christine Pelosi

#5. Counterweights - brushed

Nicholson Baker

#6. A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

Nancy Gibbs

#7. A lot of times, you're circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and it doesn't always have to be in person.

Nick Kroll

#8. In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.

Mike Birbiglia

#9. Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

Nicholas Jarecki

#10. Keep in mind that JavaScript and Java have almost nothing to do with each other.

Stanley Hoffman

#11. I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to upset and offend, are so well made that they're achieved things. However much they upset you, they also affect you.

Frederick Seidel

#12. I wasn't at all surprised when Cinderella gave me the finger.

Brad Barkley

#13. It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

Salman Rushdie

#15. I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down.

Adriana Lima

#16. What is the work of one man, in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one.

Adam Smith