Counterfactually Quotes & Sayings

One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. — Edwin Lefevre

Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film. — Claudia Schiffer

The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real. — Andrew J. Bernstein

In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved. And replaced by even bigger myths. — Matt Haig

I excel at pulling strings!" said Arachne. "I'm a spider! — Rick Riordan

I looked at her, wanting her with all the lust of my months alone and untouched. But I knew also that for that deeper hunger for companionship and understanding, she offered me no more solace than any man might find in his own hand. — Robin Hobb

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food. — Zora Neale Hurston

government is legitimate not so much because it represents the 'general will', but because its policies are, ideally and counterfactually, the result of the public deliberation of all who are concerned by the decision — Frederic Vandenberghe

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Brandi is mean skinny, that kind that doesn't come naturally and makes her face look all hallow and scary. — Megan McCafferty

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. — William Manchester