I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.
McDonald's is a people business, and that smile on that counter girl's face when she takes your order is a vital part of our image.
You can't answer violence with counter violence. . . The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.
I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.
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.
Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.
No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly
A good counter needs no calculator.
You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.
The criticisms that are often presented to us by some in the conservative Jewish community about our Palestinian version are: first, that the U. S. is not in conflict with "Palestine" (quotes are theirs) and second, that Conflict Kitchen should counter the Palestinian viewpoints it presents with pro-Israeli viewpoints, otherwise we are spreading dangerous propaganda.
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing.
The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity.
I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.
A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.
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.
Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.
Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
