Counterflash Quotes & Sayings

The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. — P. J. O'Rourke

God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work. — Craig S. Keener

It's like killing roaches. You have to kill 'em all ... Otherwise, what's the use? — Paul Kersey

Or if, as in the majority of cases in the present day, the parents themselves are anxious and bewildered in the tumultuous seas of the changing times, unsure of themselves and beset by self-doubts, their anxiety will carry over and lead the child to feel that he lives in a world in which it is dangerous to venture into becoming one's self. — Rollo May

Different brands are indeed different, and that's the challenge of developing recipes for a cooker. But just like anything, you have to be flexible. — Michele Scicolone

Forget love. Try good manners. — Rebecca Wells

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

The principles are exactly the same as those of QED: everything is built out of propagators, vertex diagrams, and coupling constants. But there are new actors and whole new plot lines, including one called QCD. — Leonard Susskind

I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There were a handful of fireflies flickering intermittently, some so close to me I could see they were burning green as they flew, and some further away, who seemed to be flashing white.
And in the sky above them a continual roil of distant summer lightning (the storm distant enough that it was silent) burned and flashed and illuminated the clouds. It seemed as if the lightning bugs were talking to the lightning, in a perfect call and response of flash and counterflash. I watched the sky and the meadow flash and flash while the dog walked ahead of me, and realised that I was perfectly happy ... — Neil Gaiman

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. — Frank Zappa

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out. — Sonia Sotomayor

it's being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when 'failure' changes from being a verb to becoming a noun. — Anup Kochhar