Imitative Counterpoint Quotes & Sayings

The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse. — Charles P. Kindleberger

Either make your money work for you or you will always have to work for your money. — Marshall Sylver

Meditation is mind's vacation! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks. — Charles R. Swindoll

Oh, the beautiful smiles of the insane. Soon, he was sure, there would be a study that showed that the mentally ill were actually more attractive than other people. Dating proved it! — Lorrie Moore

Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person. — Jim Rash

The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, "Are we free?" I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer? — Gerry Spence

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits. — Christoph Martin Wieland

The dangerous plant did not flower in every generation, they said. — Amanda Quick

The people we see do not seem to be as happy as we are. They look like they are sad, and in a hurry. They all look down at their phones and do not talk to each other. — Paul Nelson

The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach. — Yoshida Kenko

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards. — Maria Semple

During times of need, it was always the people with the least to give who ended up sacrificing the most. — Jacqueline Koyanagi

As far as the command centers are concerned in Raqqa and to a lesser degree Mosul, cut those off. Do the same kind of thing that we did with Sinjar , working with our embedded special forces with the Kurds, shut off the supply route, soften them up, then we go in with specials ops followed by our air force to take them over. Those are things that work. — Benjamin Carson

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence. — Alain De Botton