#counter

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #counter




Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.


Edmond de Goncourt


#counterfeit #intonation #laughing #laughter #mind

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.


Asa Gray


#define #different #difficulties #disturbed #encountered

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.


Homer


#counterfeit #friends #less #moved #than

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.


David Guterson


#counter #runs #spirit #traditional

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.


Jurgen Habermas


#cover #encounter #fanaticism #forms #fundamentalism

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.


Kristin Hersh


#encountering #i #realising #really #sexism

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.


Herman Hesse


#brief #days #encounters #even #experienced

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.


Billy Higgins


#certain #come #encounter #level #music

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.


Michael D. Higgins


#best #built #curiosity #encountered #enthusiasm

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.


Christopher Hitchens


#alarm #both #counterparts #his #invasion