Contrapuntally Define Quotes & Sayings

I think the key to happiness is maximizing each day. So if you're unhappy, here's a simple prescription: Live harder. — Laird Hamilton

You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name. — John Connolly

We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us. — Edward Abbey

The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's. — Kurt Vonnegut

THE VIOLENCE OF early modernity was expressed nowhere more purely or on a grander scale than in the international and internecine conflicts of the period, which custom dictates should be called "the wars of religion." Given, though, the lines of coalition that defined these conflicts, and given their ultimate consequences, they ought really to be remembered as the first wars of the modern nation-state, whose principal purpose was to establish the supremacy of secular state authority over every rival power, most especially the power of the church. — David Bentley Hart

I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor. — Peter Jacobson

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not. — John Grisham

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors. — Jonathan Sacks

I love you," I whisper. "I love you exactly as you are. — Tahereh Mafi

Our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions are being robotized; 'life' is coming to mean feeding apparatuses and being fed by them. In short: Everything is becoming absurd. So where is there room for human freedom? — Vilem Flusser

Imagine! It is the real power of a book
not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature. — Matthew Pearl