Countervailing Power Quotes & Sayings

My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work. — Jeffrey Jones

May you stay Forever Young — Bob Dylan

If you can just get a broad enough perspective on your life ... you'll realize it's all unfolding perfectly. Right this very minute. — Paul Ian Guillermo

In any country, if you don't have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development. — Condoleezza Rice

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die. — Oriana Fallaci

Jack and Jill went up that hill, for a supposed pail of water," Mother Goose said. "Jack fell down, broke his crown, 'cause Jill pushed him-but no one caught her. — Chris Colfer

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions. — Robert Redford

The real distinction between a material and spiritual worldview, [William] James wrote does not rest in "hair splitting abstraction about matter's inner essence, or about the metaphysical attributes of God. Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hope; spiritualism means the affirmation of an eternal order, and the letting loose of hope".
Given the choice, I throw my lot in with hope. — Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. — Cat Stevens

A real fighter never cries, never lets the weight of any blow bring him down. Except that final blow, the inevitable one, but even then they always go out like men. — J.A. Redmerski

Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell us we should do. But we are not God and we are neither infinite nor eternal. We are quite simply finite. We have only so many years, so much energy, so many gray cells, and so many bank notes in our wallets. 'Life is too short to ... ' eventually shortens to 'life is too short. — Os Guinness