#counter

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american idol #believe #children #concerts #counterparts

I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#humor #xenology #humor

Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#grace-brisbane #sam-roth #sam

I hired a counterfeiter the other day. I told him, “As for your salary, how much you make is really up to you.” I love a business model where the employee pays the employer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#business-model #cash #counterfeit #counterfeiter #currency

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#another #because #been #counter #different

The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract gravity. And if the work be continued long enough, or a multitude of planes be continually drawing on the reservoir of power, the wave must inevitably be flattened. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

#continued #counteract #distant #drawing #enough

I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#agree #art #balance #counter #doing

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#life #lives #living #make #worth

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them. ↗

— Roh Moo-hyun

#encounter #even #events #hide #in the past

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#counterpart #everything #find #noble #soul