#counter

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. ↗

— Albert Camus

#encounter #happy #history #misery #periods

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#attempt #back #bring #characterized #counters

Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know? ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#behind #being #bit #bored #completely

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#fans #god #had #haven #i

In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#counts #director #encounter #films #france

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future. ↗

— Mark Foley

#armenia #armenian #armenian genocide #common #counterparts

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#become #demonstration #encounters #experience #human

My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts. ↗

— Wayne Wonder

#dave #encounter #first #i #kelly

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#any #asking #bad #bad thing #cheers

The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them. ↗

— Asa Gray

#define #different #difficulties #disturbed #encountered