Countergesture Quotes & Sayings

I recommend the following course of action for those who are just beginning their careers or for those like me, who may be reconfiguring midway through: heed the words of Robert Frost. Start with a big, fat lump in your throat, start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, or a crazy lovesickness, and run with it. — Debbie Millman

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. — Maurice Sendak

There is nothing inhuman about an intelligent machine; it is indeed an expression of those superb intellectual capabilities that only human beings, of all the creatures on our planet, now possess. — Carl Sagan

The Western world is ... looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. And Sept. 11 is an occasion for me to realize it even more. — Jean Chretien

Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you. — Malaika Arora Khan

Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know. — Karl Kraus

Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science. — Paul Broca

His eyes flashed open. Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it? — Stephenie Meyer

Reading is first and foremost non-reading. Even in the case of the most passionate lifelong readers, the act of picking up and opening a book masks the countergesture that occurs at the same time: the involuntary act of *not* picking up and *not* opening all the other books in the universe. — Pierre Bayard

Love Our ability to give and respond to love is our greatest gift. The heart that God has fashioned in his image is the center of our being. Its abilities to open up to love and to allow love to flow outward are crucial to life. — Henry Cloud

Whatever you have, spend less. — William Samuel Johnson

If you can say it, it begins to exist. — William Stafford

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. — Willie Nelson