#counter

When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom. ↗

— John Sexton

#anticipate #cable #camera #challenges #darkroom

I worked at the cosmetic counter at a fine department store. ↗

— Lita Ford

#counter #department #department store #fine #i

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

#boots #counter #going #head #i

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

— Jon Stewart

#like #news #program #then #watch

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#conventional wisdom #counter #economists #like #often

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. ↗

— John Sununu

#both #congress #controls #cooperate #divisive

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#begun #counterintelligence #labs #security #since

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

Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#borges #counterbook #imaginable-permutations #orbis-tertius #tlön

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#baseness #brutality #comrades #encountered #frankness