Counterproposes Quotes & Sayings

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary. — Adam Smith

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional — Matthew Gray Gubler

The truth that there is an infinite, eternal, and personal mind behind the realities of the universe that can be detected through human reflection is the most transformative Christian apologetics idea in history. Christianity's explosive explanatory power and scope extends to such human enterprises as philosophy, psychology, science, religion, the arts, history, law, education, labor, economics, and medicine. — Kenneth Samples

My brother distrusts the essential truth of memories; I distrust the way we colour them in. We each have our own cheap-mail-order paintbox, and our favourite hues. Thus, I remembered Grandma a few pages ago as "petite and unopinionated". My brother, when consulted, takes out his paintbrush and counterproposes "short and bossy. — Julian Barnes

You freakin' hussy. You're going into heat aren't you? Oh my God I'm saving us both. We'll go back to the swamp. Even if he tries to track u, no one is as good as we are there. I just have to hide you until it's over. You should have told me

Don't tell me you didn't know, Bebe, because that's why you rose and accepted his claim. You were feeling all amorous and you were willin' to throw me to that wolf just for sex — Christine Feehan

Who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension ... — Edward Albee

Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the question of them maybe selling more books, I think that there's a real problem in trying to introduce a new world or a new concept while also getting your reader to pay close attention to your characters and themes. — Ann Leckie

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love. — Leonard Cohen

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished. — David Tudor

When I was being forgiving, I said that my mother was simply exhausted. I suspected, though, she was simply mean. — Sue Monk Kidd

If any one thinks I am unfaithful to human fact, and overcharge the description of this child, I on my side doubt the extent of the experience of that man or woman. I admit the child a rarity, but a rarity in the right direction, and therefore a being with whom humanity has the greater need to be made acquainted. I admit that the best things are the commonest, but the highest types and the best combinations of them are the rarest. There is more love in the world than anything else, for instance; but the best love and the individual in whom love is supreme are the rarest of all things. — George MacDonald

Basically, we're taking a product that would be sold in the cheapest way for dogs, and after this process, is being given to human beings. — Jamie Oliver

Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. — Thomas Sowell

There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender. — John Ortberg