Counterfoils Quotes & Sayings

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love. — Leonardo Da Vinci

So many people get deals, so many YouTubers get scripts and things made because they're constantly creating things on their own. Even if it's really cheap and it's really simple, if it's just good in itself then that's all that matters. — Charlyne Yi

There are two kinds of discontented in this world, the discontented that works and the discontented that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants and the second loses what it has. There is no cure for the first but success and there is no cure at all for the second. The very worst of my vices and bad habits will abate of themselves if they are brought to an accounting every day. — Og Mandino

They kept flipping back and forth, but it wasn't clear which was the more exquisitely pleasurable pain, to penetrate or to be penetrated. — Edmund White

Old Testament scholar David Atkinson writes: "Shame . . . is that sense of unease with yourself at the heart of your being."89 We know there is something wrong with us, but we can't admit it or identify it. There is a deep restlessness, which can take various forms - guilt and striving to prove ourselves, rebellion and the need to assert our independence, compliance and the need to please others. Something is wrong, and we may know the effects, but we fall short of understanding the true causes. — Timothy Keller

He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body. — Baha'u'llah

Vectra rounded up whatever lingering questions she may've had and tossed them as far and deep into the recesses of her mind as she could manage. — AlTonya Washington

Life changes us second by second. — Samantha Young

We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile. — Pope Francis

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently. — Carl Maria Von Weber

Let life kick you off your pedestal time and time again, until you lose all interest in being on pedestals. — Jeff Foster

...age sixty-eight and still wanting love to exist in a pure column of light, still convinced that it could. — Meg Wolitzer

Even a highwayman, in the way of trade, may blow out your brains, but if he uses foul language at the same time, I should say he was no gentleman. — William Hazlitt

Hip-hop is the last true folk art. — Mos Def