Counternarrative Quotes & Sayings

We're using our creativity to learn how to work with Divine Spirit, how to come into harmony with life around us. — Harold Klemp

Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain. — James Fenimore Cooper

The reason women are always reluctant to reveal their age is because other people label them as 'past it'. In the 21st century, women over 60 are not past it - we are vital, active, sexual beings, living life to the full. — Ita Buttrose

The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key. — Margaret Mitchell

Dimension comes a different kind of knowing, — Eckhart Tolle

You have to be open, and being open is a daily challenge, I think. — Mike Ness

Rules are for guys who don't know what they want. — Lise Horton

The feminist story, she reminded me, is a counternarrative, a narrative of disobedience, a chronicle of battle, nto of surrender. Women who do not fit the mold are too often maneuvered, manipulated, and mangled into some culturally safe archetype. The makers of history transformed perpetua intoa cold, unfeeling mother - a villan of sorts. But who is to say that becoming a mother didn't also push Perpetua to become a martyr, didn't cause her to passionatley uphold her religious ideals because she wanted to offer her son the greatest gift she could - an ideal? Maybe, in the end, Perpetua's maternal instincts were precisely what gave her the strength to confront the burliest Roman gladiator and the to lie down with dignity? — Stephanie Staal

Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban. — Andrew Ryan

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage. — Al Pacino

Don't be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings — John Piper

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet. — Hermann Von Helmholtz

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future. — Debbie Ford

we in the West have not bothered to develop an effective counternarrative because from the outset we have denied that Islamic extremism is in any way related to Islam. We persist in focusing on the violence and not on the ideas that give rise to it. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

One religion is as true as another. — Robert Burton

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. — Todd Gitlin