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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

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy. — Corbin Bernsen

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

To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities. — Patrick Dixon

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

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words. — Charlie Bewley

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

But, he feigned not to notice the two strangers, and fell into discourse with the triumvirate of customers who were drinking at the counter. — Charles Dickens

If we aren't prepared to be counter-cultural we aren't ready to be Christians. — Kevin DeYoung

Don't smile. The queen is going to come at you, and she's going to conjure up a ... machine gun, and your going to counter with a plastic straw. — Brodi Ashton

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there. — Nellie McKay

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine. — Arthur Kornberg

The Lord was in line at the pharmacy counter waiting to get His shingles shot. — Joy Williams

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money. — George Bernard Shaw

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

But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men. — Theodor W. Adorno

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

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

The only way to efficiently battle evil is to copy enough to know how to counter each argument, yet not enough to believe all the bullshit. — Will Advise

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

Fear is a good thing. It teaches you not to make the same mistake twice. You counter it with knowledge.
- Bran — Patricia Briggs

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

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. — Joseph Stiglitz

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

It could be surprisingly hard to counter Plain Stupid. Even by heroic measures. — Lois McMaster Bujold

She's trapped me on the front side of the counter. Way. Too. Close. To. Her. LIP-GLOSS. — Anne Eliot

Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right. — Trisha Yearwood

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

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

There is no escaping from power, that it is always-already present constituting that very thing which one attempts to counter it with. — Michel Foucault

Love is the only effective counter to death. — Maureen Duffy

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 — C.S. Lewis

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

I've got an up-to-the-minute block of 60 seconds. It's on the kitchen counter thawing out at this very moment. — Jarod Kintz

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. — Edith Hamilton

At Arsenal we play a very attractive, offensive style so I always have to be aware of counter attacks when you have to shift your position a lot more. — Jens Lehmann

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. — Nancy Garden

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect. — Elia Suleiman

Now I know this is going to seem counter to every instinct that you have, but I'm going to ask you to sit still, or I'll put you in the trunk. — Anna White

Up to the counter in her white kitten heels. I haven't seen you in a month of Sundays. I always try to get — Sarah Addison Allen

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. — Marian Wright Edelman

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

With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving. — Kenneth Rexroth

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

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. — William Glasser

Knowledge and patience, the only counter to greater skill. — J.S. Lewis

I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future. — Werner Bischof

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful. — Glenda Jackson

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. — Henry David Thoreau

Even the fear of death is barely enough to counter this compulsion of ours. — Hugh Howey

My your balls wither away and you develop and allergy to Viagra and all it's counter-parts
(Sophie to Royd) — Iris Johansen

Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. — William Gibson

Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner. — Zack Love

Anger is the only antidote strong enough to counter grief. — Rauwolfia

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. — Toyo Ito

She did as she pleased, regarding life as 'an inexhaustible counter', from which she seemed to be continually picking out presents for herself. — Judith Mackrell

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques. — Adam McKay

I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter. — Robert Smith

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity. — Erma Bombeck

It was a counter-attack and I had to take him down. I don't regret it and I would do it again if I had to. — Thomas Gravesen

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works. — Taner Edis

A counter to a jab is a left hook. What's the counter to prejudice? — Cameron Conaway

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale, — Boris Johnson

I moved to the counter. A note was propped on the register. Welcome home, Ms. Lane. Arrogant, overconfident jackass. — Karen Marie Moning

As multitudes of babies are dismembered and destroyed daily, this is clearly an issue where the gospel requires us to counter culture. — David Platt

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

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

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

A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten. — Denis Norden

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

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

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

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

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

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

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