Agere Contra Quotes & Sayings

Home is important. Its important to have a home. — George W. Bush

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself. — Meryl Streep

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go. — John Flanagan

Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair fern and barfed it up on the carpet. Then he had apparently worked himself into a frenzy sharpening his ting by amazingly effective claws on the armrest of my dad's favorite chair.
Now he was asleep on a pillow, curled up like a fuzzy little snail.
"God, he's so cute," I said, shaking my head. — Cate Tiernan

Ruth Varnum was always as nervous as a rat; and, come to think of — Edith Wharton

Acquaintance; companion;
One dear brilliant woman;
The best-endowed, the elect,
All by their youth undone,
All, all, by that inhuman
Bitter glory wrecked. — William Butler Yeats

The houses [my first project in London] were reactions to the condition of the city and my frustrations with the norms that were being played out. In a way they were slightly subconscious but reactions to that condition and a way to posit new possibilities within certain pervasive norms. — David Adjaye

What's the matter, don't you like surprises?"
"I like them if they're pleasant ones, and when they happen suddenly," Holly said. "But not when I have to ponder them for an hour and forty-five minutes. — Stuart Woods

A liar is a liar and lives on the lies he tells and dies in a life of lies. — Carl Sandburg

We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way "unnatural" or "supernatural" ... (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process ... make mistakes. — Richard Rohr

I shit on justice!" yelled the mayor, not caring if there were any voters under the window. — Andrzej Sapkowski