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The same kind of Diefenbachia that Grandmother Waterhouse used to have growing on the counter in her downstairs bathroom. — Neal Stephenson

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. — Jared Diamond

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive. — Stellan Skarsgard

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility. — Jacques Delors

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

To be forced to endure something because you have no money to counter it ; this fact is totally unfair and I can't, personally, tolerate it. — Laure Lacornette

The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword — Libba Bray

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

Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution. — Andrei Grechko

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. — Martin Buber

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right. — Prince

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. — Nicholas Johnson

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain. — Mardy Grothe

Applying deep insight and rubber stamping are such counter-propositions. — Pearl Zhu

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you. — Andre Gide

The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Violence always thrived on counter violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges. — Melanne Verveer

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive. — Neil Young

You keep looking at me like that and we won't make it through dinner. I'll take you right there on that counter. No doubt you'd taste better. — Kelly Moran

Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you. — Timothy Ferriss

War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts. — Lawrence S. Wittner

A good counter needs no calculator. — Laozi

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses. — W.B.Yeats

Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the Soviets. — Timothy Snyder

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just. — Mao Zedong

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive. — Linus Torvalds

Michael lifted a menu from a stack on the counter and opened it. 'What's meatloaf?' I get the meat part, but a loaf of it? — Justin Cronin

At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail! — Leonard Ravenhill

and hot raw wood. There was a guy behind a counter, in worn blue overalls stained black with dirt. He was — Lee Child

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's. — Henry Rollins

Chelsea are not made to play football. We're good on the counter, a little bit like Real against Bayern. — Eden Hazard

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love. — Athol Fugard

The sun cannot shine as bright without a proper darkness to counter it.
The world had gone a bit gray. — Kevin Hearne

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination. — Bell Hooks

My boyfriend likes to fuck my brains out on our kitchen island. Which tile would you recommend for that? — Alice Clayton

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only sensible thing to do when you are attacked is, as Napoleon once said, to counter-attack. — Roald Dahl

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. — Ice Cube

We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well. — Maajid Nawaz

I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

AAB actively campaigns to reduce aggression and counter bullying by creating peaceful campaigns such as Cyberkind. — Louise Burfitt-Dons

The minute you get too big to mop a floor or wipe a counter, that's the exact minute you have life f**ked up. — DMX

Wear a hat with a brim to counter the effects of overhead lights. It can also give you a feeling of security. — Rudy Simone

Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting! — Bruce Lee

I went to a cigar store, the man behind the counter asked me, "What kind of cigars do you like?" I answered, "It's a Boys." — Mitch Hedberg

What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger? — Martin Luther King Jr.

Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd. — Frank Lautenberg

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction. — Donald Hall

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young. — Caroline Kepnes

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?' — Jay Leno

Fine! I'll throw on some clothes. Turn around. I'm in my pj's"
"I'm a guy. That's like asking a kid not to glance at the candy counter. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Naturally, no march on Washington would be complete without its counter-demonstration. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

home and there it sits on the counter, going sour. — Stephen King

As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter. — Victoria Moran

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests. — Matt Taibbi

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants. — Henry Adams

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege. — Jonathan Coleman

What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger? — Martin Luther King Jr.

Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion. — Norman Vincent Peale

We used to meet on the beach or in the bush. Now we meet at the Prescription counter. — John Cameron Smith

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things. — Naguib Mahfouz

The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious. — Mark Nepo

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate. — Maajid Nawaz

Pseudoephedrine and ephedrine (found in over-the-counter cold and allergy medication) may inhibit lactation, as well. — Brette McWhorter Sember

No troubles has come my way
touching wood. He rapped the counter sharply with his knuckles. — Agatha Christie

Trump is a counter-product of the traditional political scheme. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. — Scarlett Johansson

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality. — Rob Lowe

when in the face of writer's block, find another way to counter attack". — Shaheer Henderson

The kulaks were contagious. Their souls were contagious. They carried the spores of counter-revolution. — Robert Harris

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news. — Jon Stewart

Sometimes what comes, simply comes, too fast to anticipate, or counter with prudence. The deluge just appears, on occasion, be it weather, or life. — Ryne Douglas Pearson

Principle: To counter aimlessness, you must define your battles wisely, and build your life around winning them. — Todd Henry

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime. — Antony Beevor

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter. — Nigella Lawson

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent. — Theresa May

Dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release. — Jasmine Cresswell

The guy behind the counter scratches his neck. "Are you being serious?" Her face is stoic. "Absolutely. I never kid about teddy bears. — Jessica Sorensen

According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. — Harry Enfield

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences. — Bob Gill

In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict. — Anais Nin

A little." She set it on the counter. "But it's probably not a terrible idea. Just in case. — Marcus Sakey

If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player. — Jo Durie

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state. — Don DeLillo

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. — Nadia Giosia

Victor wished he could trade abilities with Eli. But first he wiped the blood from the counter, and poured himself another drink. — V.E Schwab

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. — Ray Kroc

I ain't thinking of tomorrow, tomorrow thinks of me like a garcia, bulk of money on tha counter, I told her, baby I see you as my cashier — Lil' Wayne

Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it. — Arthur Wimperis

Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. — Kakha Bendukidze

Your business will look totally different from your customer's viewpoint, so jump the counter and start to see things from their perspective. — Feargal Quinn

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. — Ignazio Silone

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities. — Henry James

First you're going to get your sweet little ass down from there and bend over the counter while I show you who the fuck is boss around here. — Alyssa Turner

We have put over Â£2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards — David Blunkett

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth. — Billy Graham

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist. — Cameron Russell