Counter Quotes - page 6

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically. (Midge Ure)
I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire. View quote
Mike Weir
Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange. View quote
Nadia Giosia
Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock. View quote
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. View quote
Susan Lieberman
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters. View quote
Samuel Fuller
Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right. View quote
Trisha Yearwood
Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter. View quote
Tyler Florence
I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand. View quote
William H. Hunt
The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever. View quote
Nancy Garden
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted. (Dick Gregory)
Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Perhaps, I can express more fully in verse ideas and emotions which run counter to the inert crystallized opinion - hard as a rock - which the vast body of men have vested interests in supporting. If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. View quote
Thomas Hardy
The strengthening of the human rights enforcement system is necessary to counter the prevalent architecture of corporate impunity. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
The people who have sufficient passion for the truth to give the truth a chance to prevail, if it runs counter to their bias, are in a minority. How important is this "minority?" View quote
Leó Szilárd
Historicism runs counter to the specific capacity of the literary work to escape the limits of historical time, to allow for the cross-generational flourishing of tradition, and open the present to a multidimensional temporality. View quote
Russell Berman
If you succeeded with patience, you should try to reach a higher state of morality; which is to counter evil with good. View quote
Mohammed Alkobaisi
London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high. View quote
Henry James
If your opponent strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over. View quote
Christopher Walken
In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic container without breaking stride. When he arrived at the counter at the end of corridor, he changed his ticket. (William Gibson)
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news. View quote
Jon Stewart
I hear you reproach, 'But delay was best, For their end was a crime.' Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view ...... Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Isthe unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say. View quote
Robert Browning
It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. View quote
Leo Buscaglia