#counter

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#convince #difficult #encounter #geometry #hard

I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#bullies #encounter #exist #fortunate #however

We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God… Among the tribes our creed could be only like the desert grass – a beautiful swift seeming of spring; which, after a day’s heat, fell dusty. ↗

— T.E. Lawrence

#military #beauty

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret. ↗

— Criss Jami

#counterpart #discovery #empiricism #experience #failures

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#art #between #control #encounter #i

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#bigger #encounter #him #life #make

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#counterterrorism #focus #i #i think #learned

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#bar #conversations #counter #feeling #i

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#counter #courts #decisions #form #law

In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#counts #director #encounter #films #france