Countervailing Measures Quotes & Sayings

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously. — Cate Blanchett

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan. — Kate Moss

Ah, give me madness, you heavenly powers! Madness, that I may at least believe in myself!
Give deliriums and convulsions,
sudden lights and darkness,
terrify me with frost and fire such as no mortal has ever felt, with deafening din and prowling figures,
make me howl and whine and crawl like a beast:
so that I may only come to believe in myself! — Friedrich Nietzsche

She liked to think. What did she like to think? She was having a dumb day and wanted to blame the fog.
Maybe he falls, he slides, if that is a useful word, from his experience of an objective world, the deepest description of space-time, where he does not feel a sense of future direction - he slides into her experience, everyone's, the standard sun-kissed chronology of events.
Am I the first human to abduct an alien? — Don DeLillo

I think I'm going through a bit of ADD. I'm reading 3 books simultaneously and it's something that I don't recommend. It's like watching TV with two others who keep changing the channels... — S.J. Romero

It is better to be young, beautiful and rich than ugly, old and poor. — Max Bunker

The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times. — Jim George

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form. — Jefferson Davis

This sounds idiotic, but every time I encounter a picture of myself I am shocked to have been seen. I do not, under ordinary circumstances, feel seen. — Lionel Shriver

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree? — P.L. Travers

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. — Barry Eichengreen

I think I was just trying to coast and you can't coast and try and win at the same time, you know? It'll be three years now since those wins, but the last couple of years I've just really been trying to put my miles in, get them up there to 80 miles a week, 90 miles a week and put the work in again. — Carrie Tollefson