Counter Quotes

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. (Joseph Stiglitz)
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. View quote
Denis Diderot
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. View quote
Edith Hamilton
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
Baby wipes are great for everything! For wiping babies' butts, as an eye-makeup remover, to wipe the counter, to clean my hands at the airport, just everything. View quote
Bethenny Frankel
I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend. View quote
Alexis Arguello
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts. View quote
Michael Pollan
If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. ... There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus. View quote
Paul Krugman
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling booth. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software. View quote
J. G. Ballard
It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much that seems so counter to what the world is like. Many of the things that I'm going to describe make so much more common sense than these notions that seem counter to what ones eyes see every day. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. (Bell hooks)
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us. View quote
David Ben-Gurion
On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity. View quote
Vanna Bonta
No attempt of any kind must be made at rescuing members of ships sunk, and this includes picking up persons in the water and putting them in lifeboats, righting capsized lifeboats, and handing over food and water. Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews. Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities. View quote
Karl Dönitz
Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of ‘being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived. View quote
Max Horkheimer
Piper!” Frank yelled. "Counter those empousai! We need some chaos.” "Thought you'd never ask.” She started catcalling at the female demons: "Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back! View quote
Rick Riordan
Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always. View quote
Richard Marcinko
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. View quote
Toyo Ito
So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture. View quote
Thom Mayne
Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What it does rest on is our innate moral goodness, compassion, and pity which, when liberated, lead us to value all forms of life. It is obvious, then, that wilfully to take life, or through the eating of meat indirectly to cause others to kill, runs counter to the deepest instincts of human beings. (Philip Kapleau)
Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter. View quote
Caroline Knapp
I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people. View quote
Alberto Fujimori